Kerri A. Pierce

Kjersti A. Skomsvold

The highly acclaimed debut of one of Norway's brightest talents.

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am (Norwegian Literature Series)

Tor Ulven

Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, directing the book in turn; each replacing its predecessor and forming another link in a chain leading nowhere. These people reminisce, reflect, observe, and talk to themselves; each stuck in their respective traps, each dreaming of escape. A masterpiece of compression and confession, Replacement dramatizes the tension between the concrete realities we think we cannot alter, and our interior lives, where we feel anything might still be possible.

Replacement

Mela Hartwig

For the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life.

Am I a Redundant Human Being?

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

"Svendsen has a way with words, and, unlike many writers of philosophy books, is also blessed with a sly wit and a thorough knowledge of popular culture."-Phil Miller, The Glasgow Herald

A Philosophy of Evil

Iben Mondrup

Justine

Nikanor Teratologen

Swedish novelist's Nikanor Teratologen's Assisted Living draws what must be the most purely evil portrait of humanity in all of Scandinavian literature (if indeed its cartoon characters can be considered human). Like the Marquis de Sade before him, Teratologen has plumbed the depths of the darkest reaches of the imagination with frightening glee, leaving no horror unattended to, no taboo unviolated - be it murder, incest, Nazi fetishism, substance abuse, or even continental philosophy -- and what results is a nearly exhaustive catalog of evil's possibilities and permutations... the horrors and hypocrisies of our contemporary reality show through.-- Cover.

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