ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #OutStealingHorses by #PerPetterson. Gorgeous coming of age book. Best fiction I’ve read in ages!
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House
1879
#EdvardMunch #AppleTree #NorwegianLiterature #playwright #theatersky #theatresky #victorian #protofeminism #feminism #desire #imprisonment #expressionism #expressionist
Book cover. Jonas Lie, The Family at Gilje: A Domestic Story of the Forties
Author photo. Jonas Lie
"Below, hills and wooded mountain slopes shut the region in with white walls, constantly narrower and narrower, nearer and nearer, always more contracting."
– Jonas Lie, The Family at Gilje
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I Refuse, written by Per Petterson and translated by Don Bartlett. I enjoyed reading this beautifully written novel about the complexities of childhood friendships, family traumas, and fighting the darkness within.
#books #read #perpetterson #donbartlett #irefuse #thirteenerxx #norwegianliterature
A hand holding a book with the cover reading “My Struggle Book 6” by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Not sure why I waited so long to finish Karl Ove Knausgaard’s #MyStruggle. I blew through books 1-5, but am only just now getting to the final installment and it’s amazing. Some of the best #writing I’ve read - like this piece on pg. 404 about his deceased father. 🤯 #BookSky #NorwegianLiterature
Coming soon.
#Hunger #KnutHamsun #NorwegianLiterature #ModernistNovel #PsychologicalFiction #NobelPrize #StreamOfConsciousness #LiteraryModernism #ScandinavianLiterature #ExistentialFiction
Finished reading: #MyStruggleBook6 by #KarlOveKnausgaard which means, after three years, I’ve finished the #MyStruggle series, 3864 pages later.
4.3.25 → 4.21.25
(BTW, it’s amazing what happens in life while reading a 1200+ page book)
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🌿📖 Big news! Sigbjørn Skåden’s #Planterhaug is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles for spring 2025! A gripping Sámi mystery filled with spirits, family secrets & offal-based meals. Can’t wait to see this book travel the world! 👏
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#NorwegianLiterature #SámiStories #SigbjørnSkåden
“Then it occurred to me that many of these people had suffered more than Christ himself. I pondered this until I felt that my heart and mind would burst.”
Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
1920
#nobelprize #nobel #nobellaureate #booksky #medieval #norwegianliterature #historicalfiction #reading
“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
1890
#modernnovel #psychologicalnovel #norwegianliterature #philosophy #booksky #poverty #housingsecurity #homelessness #foodsecurity #writing #novel #books #reading #resistance #translation #robertbly #19thC
This Book Explores How Ideas Of Nature And The Nonhuman Play An Important Part In Literary Depictions Of Same-Sex Desire In Twentieth-Century Norwegian Literature.
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#humanities, #norwegianliterature, #same-sex-desire, #PerEsbenSvelstad
Graphic with green background and pink text with a small portion of the cover of the book Paradise Rot showing to the left side. The text reads "Paradise Rot by Yoko Jenny Hval, 1)Weird literary fiction translated from Norwegian, 2) Ethereal girl love, 3) Allusions to the original sin of being a woman, 4) Beautiful descriptions of decay & natural processes, 5) Writing that gives you that uncanny, underwater feeling, 6) Lots of pee talk"
Graphic with green background and pink text with a small portion of the cover of the book Paradise Rot showing to the right side. The text is a quote from Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval: “…I noticed that I was crossing a line, that I gleaned and gathered something painful from her that didn’t fall to the floor, but that braided itself into my body from hers.”
Graphic with green background and pink text with a small portion of the cover of the book Paradise Rot showing to the right side. The text is a quote from Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval: “Together we filled each other to the brim and lay there slumped in an all-consuming doze, like gorged snakes digesting their prey.”
PARADISE ROT by JENNY HVAL - 5/5 ⭐
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Sundays are for Hamsun.
#KnutHamsun #Hunger #Hamsun #NorwegianLiterature #NordicWriters
#ClassicLiterature #LiterarySundays
Starting 2025 with a powerful read: "Edvin Ramm går under vann" by Tromsø author #EndreLundEriksen. A touching & funny story about being 11, facing challenges, & finding connection. Perfect for all readers, with or without ties to epilepsy. 🌊📚
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First BS and it’s a good one!
BBC World Book Cafe in Olso. @octaviabright_ gets to know the Norwegian books world through it's writers Maja Lunde, Zeshan Shakar, Gunnhild Øyehaug and Oliver Lovrenski. To come along register here.litteraturhuset.no/en/arrangement…
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