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Ein Serienkiller findet seine Opfer über die Dating-App Tinder. Die Osloer Polizei hat keine Spur. Der einzige Spezialist für Serientäter, Harry Hole, unterrichtet an der Polizeihochschule, weil er mehr Zeit für seine Frau Rakel und ihren Sohn Oleg haben möchte. Doch Holes alter Chef Mikael Bellmann kennt Olegs Vergangenheit und setzt Hole unter Druck. Der Kommissar gibt schließlich nach und arbeitet hochkonzentriert mit seinen Leuten an dem Fall. In einer Atmosphäre der Angst zögern viele Frauen, sich weiter über die App zu verabreden. Die schlimmsten Befürchtungen werden wahr, als tatsächlic... continue
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Estado del malestar by Nina Lykke, Ana Flecha Marco ES
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Nadie conoce tan bien como un médico de cabecera las corrientes subyacentes de la población. He pasado por todo, sin gluten, sin lactosa, sin azúcar; cada dos titulares en los periódicos y en la web llevan a las personas sanas a creer que si simplemente dejan de comer pan o queso, todo se arreglará. Las personas de mediana edad no entienden por qué están tan cansadas todo el tiempo. Es porque estás envejeciendo, les digo, pero ellos piensan que esto del envejecimiento no se aplica a ellos, de la misma manera que creen que esto de la muert... continue
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Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun EN
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The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway.
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Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen EN
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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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Hunger by Knut Hamsun EN
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A modernist masterpiece: the Nobel Prize winner’s first and most important novel A Penguin Classic First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on “an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body.” Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. For more than seventy years, Penguin... continue
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Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth EN
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A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament 'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art.The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought aboiut a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new p... continue
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Knots : Stories by Gunnhild Øyehaug EN
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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