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Lindstrøm, Merethe
Days in the History of SilenceNominated for the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize 2012
An elderly woman thinks about her former housekeeper, a woman her and her husband were close to for a period of time, before abruptly dismissing her. Everyone but she and her husband question what happened. The couple has silently agreed to not discuss their past. While he becomes more and more closed up, she tries to break out of the isolation and silence, for instance by speaking to a priest.
The novel is about the love between two people who have made important choices that define their entire existence, just to realize that some things can’t be omitted. The past not only resurfaces, it has been there all along.
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“With ‘Days in the History of Silence’ Merethe Lindstrøm has written one of this autumn’s best novels. In unobtrusive, elegant and incisive prose, she has produced a drama of everyday life which insinuates itself under the reader’s skin. (…) Merethe Lindstrøm is never ostentatious, and she does not use original metaphors, irony or subtext, instead depending completely on the power of her own subdued, explicit prose. There is therefore an insistent seriousness about this novel that does not fail to leave an impression of great credibility and authenticity.” Dagsavisen
“Something as rare as an author it is essential to read. (…) One of the real finds of this year’s autumn book season.” Aftenposten
Eeg, Harald Rosenløw
Leave of AbsenceDue to an explosion, five teenagers are caught in the tunnel between two subway stations. Suddenly the two girls and two boys have to relate to one another in a whole new way, and to the wounded and dead in the trains. At the same time, they have to try to escape the caved in tunnel. Are they walking towards life or death?
This is a powerful tale about staring death and terror directly in the face.
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“The book is exciting as a thriller, but it is no action book about the hunt for terrorists. It depicts a journey to death and back, and shows that such a journey marks a person. That’s something all real terror victims probably can agree on." ” Dagbladet
Knausgård, Karl Ove
My Struggle - vol. 6Throughout the series of novels titled My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgård mercilessly explores his own life, his ambitions and failures, his insecurity and doubts, his relationships to friends and lovers, wife and children, mother and father. It is also a risky project where the limits between the private and the public are transgressed again and again, not without costs for the writer himself and for the people he describes.
The sixth and final volume deals with the realization of the work, with the publication of the previous volumes and the circumstances around the publication, with literature itself and its relationship to reality.
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“[Taken as a whole, My Struggle] stands out as more important and more relevant than what any other living writer on our latitudes has produced during, say, the last three decades, and probably even longer” Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
“There will be a before and an after My Struggle. Knausgård will have the same status as Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun. It’s quite a mystery how Norway can continue producing world class writers.” Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark
