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      • March 2023

        Summer does not last all year any more

        Novel

        by Katrin Ottarsdóttir

        It is Tórshavn in the 1970’s. The protagonist is a 16 year old girl from a dysfunctional home with a tyrant mother. She carries a huge secret, that no one can find out – especially not her mother. The girl is pregnant and she does everything in her power to hide it. But at some point the truth must come out. What will she do, when she can’t hide her secret anymore?  Summer does not last all year any more is a portrait of a small society where keeping up appearances is the most important of all. A coming of age story that deals with shame, abortion, a dysfunctional mother and secrecy. The novel is an independent sequel to The Girl in the World, Ottarsdóttir’s debut novel from 2020.

      • Fantasy
        November 2017

        The Man and the Wall

        by Sercan Leylek

        A young Jewish girl,  Anna Sophie, is magically caught inside a brick wall during World War II, while German soldiers are raiding the library where she works. Just as magically, her presence inside the wall is discovered seventy years later by a young Muslim immigrant named Yakamoz. The wall in this story can be found in real-life central Oslo, next to the National Library, where Anna Sophie worked. Is The Man and the Wall fantastic realism, or is it realistic fantasy? Whatever it might be, the story of Anna Sophie and Yakamoz keeps you captured till The End.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2002

        Drømmer om storhet

        by Pål H. Christiansen

        Drømmer om storhet is about a down-on-his-luck 40ish writer obsessed about Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of the rock group a-ha. Hobo has published a few books and poems in the past and now works as a proof-reader for a newspaper. He aspires to write a Nobel Prize winning literary novel, but has a loose grip on reality. He selects Paul Waaktaar-Savoy as his idol, as someone like him who struggled from a little known country to break out on the world scene. Hobo has a penchant for words. His favorite book is the dictionary and, of course, he plays Scrabble with his girl friend Helle. He and his odd friends make for a humorous story laced with actual tidbits about a-ha.

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