Books set in Norway (108)


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Present Tense Machine : A Novel by Gunnhild Øyehaug EN

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"A playful and transcendent novel about language, family, and parallel universes"--

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Replacement by Tor Ulven EN

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Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, directing the book in turn; each replacing its predecessor and forming another link in a chain leading nowhere. These p... continue

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Sameproblemet

Sameproblemet by Kathrine Nedrejord NO

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Fortelleren, Marie, inviterer oss med inn i sin sfære. Alle minnene og historiene strømmer på idet hun reiser fra Paris og til familien i Finnmark for å delta i mormorens begravelse. Her er røttene hennes, storfamilien, barndomsopplevelsene og alt hun har lagt bak seg i sitt nye liv med mann og barn i Frankrike, alt hun har unnveket i mange år. Men nå som hun bestemmer seg for å skrive mormorens – áhkkus – historie, slipper hun også sin egen historie til. Marie oppdager hvordan undertrykkelse indirekte og mer direkte... continue

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Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse EN

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A haunting collection from one of Norway's most celebrated writers.




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Sneeuwwit by Samuel Bjørk NL

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
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Als in een buitenwijk van Oslo de lijken van twee 11-jarige jongens worden aangetroffen, onderzoekt het team van Holger Munch de zaak.


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Sophie's World : A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder EN

Rating: 4 (18 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
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The international bestseller about life, the universe and everything. 'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart' DAILY MAIL 'Remarkable ... an extraordinary achievement' SUNDAY TIMES When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her n... continue