Books set in Norway (22)


1.
Blood on Snow

Blood on Snow : A Novel by Jo Nesbø, Erik Axl Sund EN

Rating: 3.5     32 Votes
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
"Two women--a police detective and a psychotherapist--are faced with the question: how much suffering can one human being inflict upon another before he ceases to be human and becomes a monster?" --
Recommended: 31 Mar 2023

2.
Das Eis-Schloss

Das Eis-Schloss by Tarjei Vesaas DE

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Genre
Recommended: 01 Feb 2023


4.
Gjestene

Gjestene by Agnes Ravatn NO

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Genre
Recommended: 25 Jan 2023

5.
Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.

6.
Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
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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Recommended: 17 Jun 2023

7.

Knots : Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug EN

Rating: 3     7 Votes
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud’s thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing ... continue
Recommended: 11 Sep 2023

8.
Love

Love by Hanne Orstavik EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
A single mother, Vibeke, and her son Jon, have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. It is the day before Jon's birthday, but Vibeke, preoccupied with concerns of her own, has forgotten this. With a man on her mind, she ventures to the local library and then a fairground, while Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club. We follow the two characters on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night as Orstavik weaves together their two separate worlds - a sense of uneasiness grows.
Genre Adult
Recommended: 24 Jul 2023

9.
Mysteries

Mysteries : A Novel by Knut Hamsun EN

Rating: 3.5     8 Votes
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he arrived.
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Recommended: 15 May 2023

10.
Pan : uit de papieren van luitenant Thomas Glahn

Pan : uit de papieren van luitenant Thomas Glahn by Knut Hansun NL

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Genre
Recommended: 05 Dec 2022


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