Books from Norway
128 popular norwegian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Norway.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun EN
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The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.
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Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen EN
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Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late 19th century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Plays for Performance Series.
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Hello? Is Anybody There? by Jostein Gaarder, James Anderson EN
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While waiting for the birth of his baby brother, Joe is visited by a strange child from another planet, and the two discover that they, and their planets, share many similarities as well as differences.
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun EN
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A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.” Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. For more than seventy years, Penguin... continue
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun DE
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Ein junger Mann irrt durch eine Stadt, ohne Ziel und Daseinszweck, körperlich ausgezehrt, doch «vom fröhlichen Wahnsinn des Hungers gepackt». Das ist es, was ihn aufrecht hält: ein irrlichternder Geist, ein seismografisches Empfinden, eine fantastische Erfindungs- und Einbildungskraft. Den Kapriolen seiner halluzinatorischen Zustände verdankt der weltberühmte Roman jene ungeheure Komik, die schon Astrid Lindgren begeisterte. Nicht, was in ihm geschildert wird – nämlich die manischen Ausgeburten von «Hirnfieber» bei Nahrungsentzug &nda... continue
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I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjørk EN
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When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads âe~Iâe(tm)m travelling aloneâe(tm). In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately charged with assembling a special homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must track down his former partner, Mia KrÃ1⁄4ger âe" a brilliant but troubled detective âe" who has retreated to a solitary island with plans to kill herself. Reviewing the file, Mia finds something new âe" a thin line carved into the dead girlâe(tm)s fingernail: the number 1. She knows th... continue
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Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth EN
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A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art.The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new p... continue
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Jakt (Biobrikken Bok 1) by Ben Ormstad NO
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Først kom overvåkningskameraene. På hvert hushjørne, i hver gate, utenfor hvert hjem. Ikke bare i Oslo og andre byer verden over, men også i ørkenen, jungelen og i dype skoger som Finnskogen. Det var bare begynnelsen. Nå klargjøres innføringen av en databrikke som sprøytes inn i hånden og registrerer alt om deg - gener og helsetilstand, hva du spiser og drikker, hvor du til enhver tid befinner deg, hvem du omgås, hva du liker og ikke liker. Alt privatliv vil forsvinne. For alltid. Om tre dager innføres den verden over - med tvang. Biobrikken. Makteliten vet tiden er knapp. Motstand ulmer i bef... continue
