Jens Bjørneboe: Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom)
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…
Lars Saabye Christensen: Beatles (Beatles)
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,…
Johan Bojer: Den store hunger (The Great Hunger)
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…
Norwegian literature
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…
Fiona Snyckers: Lacuna
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…
Karen Duve: Regenroman (Rain)
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…
Andrey Kurkov: Смерть постороннего (Death and the Penguin)
The latest addition to my website is Andrey Kurkov's Смерть постороннего (Death and the Penguin). Yes, it is about a penguin but the penguin is both Viktor's quirky pet but…
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11