Cora Sandel: Alberte og Jakob (Alberta and Jacob)
The latest addition to my website is Cora Sandel's Alberte og Jakob (Alberta and Jacob). This is a semi-autobiographical novel, the first in a trilogy, set in a small town,…
The latest addition to my website is Cora Sandel's Alberte og Jakob (Alberta and Jacob). This is a semi-autobiographical novel, the first in a trilogy, set in a small town,…
The latest addition to my website is Jan Kjaerstad's Forføreren (The Seducer). This novel is about Jonas Wergeland, a TV documentary producer, who charms everybody (hence the title) though women…
The latest addition to my website is Sigurd Hoel's Møte ved Milepelen (Meeting at the Milestone). Published only two years after World War II, this book had considerable impact in…
The latest addition to my website is Axel Jensen's Ikaros – ung mann i Sahara (Icarus – A Young Man in Sahara). Our unnamed narrator, a young Norwegian, heads for…
Latest on my website: Jens Bjørneboe's Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom) This is a thoroughly grim account by a forty-six year old Norwegian, living in a remote Alpine part of…
The latest addition to my website is Lars Saabye Christensen's . The novel tells the stories of four Norwegian boys/young men from 1965 (when they are fourteen) to 1972. Initially,…
The latest addition to my website is Johan Bojer's Den store hunger (The Great Hunger). Bojer write about the poor and downtrodden. This book is about Peer Holm, the illegitimate…
Every year around this time, I read only books from one country. As we are hoping to visit Norway for the first time later this year, I have selected this…
The latest addition to my website is Fiona Snyckers' Lacuna. J M Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace was controversial, particularly for the scene where Lucy Lurie is raped by three…
The latest addition to my website is Karen Duve's Regenroman (Rain). Leon Ulbricht is an unsuccessful writer when his friend Harry Klaamt gets him the job of writing a biography…