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Powderhouse

Jens Bjørneboe

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 26
• Powderhouse is a novel which is set in an asylum for the criminally insane, where the narrator functions as a kind of porter, observing and commenting... Lees meer

Penwoman

Elin Wägner

• Paperback | Engels
• Penwoman is the classic novel about the Swedish women's suffrage movement. Originally published in 1910, this was Elin Wägner's second novel. Having b... Lees meer

Barbara

Jorgen-Franz Jacobsen

• Paperback | Engels
• Barbara, originally written in Danish, was the only novel by the Faroese author Jørgen-Franz Jacobsen (1900 - 1938), and yet it quickly achieved inter... Lees meer

We Own the Forests and other Poems

Hans Børli

• Paperback | Engels
• Hans Børli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days seem to have been divided into two separate... Lees meer

To Pieces

Henri Parland

• Paperback | Engels
• To Pieces is Henry Parland's (1908-1930) only novel, published posthumously after his death from scarlet fever. Ostensibly the story of an unhappy lov... Lees meer

Short Stories

Hjalmar Söderberg

• Paperback | Engels
• The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony. They include some of his mo... Lees meer

The Defence of a Madman

August Strindberg

• Paperback | Engels
• This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It purports to be a v... Lees meer

Fru Ines

Amalie Skram

• Paperback | Engels
• Fru Inés is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Constantinople. The city is a hub, a meeting point of Ea... Lees meer

District Governor's Daughters

Collett Camilla

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 10
• Written in 1854-55 and translated after 140 years into English, this is the one and only novel written by a daughter of one of Norway's best-known lit... Lees meer

Murder in the Dark

Dan Turell

• Paperback | Engels
• Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentimental appraisal of Scandinavian society (as seen through... Lees meer

The God of Chance

Kirsten Thorup

• Paperback | Engels | Norvik Press Series B: English Translations of Scandinavian Literature | nr. 59
• The God of Chance focuses on the relationship between Ana, a high-flying Danish career woman from the international finance sector whose work is her l... Lees meer

Illuminating the North

Agnes Broome, Pei-Sze Chow, Nicholas Smalley

• Paperback | Engels
• The Nordic Research Network (NRN) began as a forum for UK- based early career researchers to share their work with peers in a convivial intellectual e... Lees meer

Framed Horizons

• Paperback | Engels | Norvik Press Series C. Student Writing
• This anthology brings together essays written by BA, MA and PhD students of Nordic Cinema at UCL. The essays discuss the key directors and movements i... Lees meer

Beyond Borealism

• Paperback | Engels
• Maybe 'borealism' could be a name for the Southern preconceived ideas about those who live at Northern latitudes? Thus writes prominent Norwegian writ... Lees meer

Pobeda 1946

Ilmar Taska

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 75
• In Tallinn in 1946 a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream-coloured car gliding down the street. It is a Russian Pobeda, a car ca... Lees meer

The Poet Who Created Herself

Edith Södergran

• Paperback | Engels
• Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for the ... Lees meer

The Misadventures of the New Satan

Anton Tammsaare

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 43
• Satan has a problem: God has come to the conclusion that it is unfair to send souls to hell if they are fundamentally incapable of living a decent lif... Lees meer

The Silence

Jens Bjørneboe

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 28
• This volume marks the apex and the culmination of the provocative Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe's investigations into the nature of evil. Here the s... Lees meer

Berge

Jan Kjærstad

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 80
• One August day in 2008 the Norwegian Labour Party's most colourful MP, Arve Storefjeld, is discovered in a remote cabin in the country, together with ... Lees meer

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 1

Selma Lagerlof

• Paperback | Engels | Lagerlof in English
• Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the ge... Lees meer

Crisis

Karin Boye

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 74
• Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers' college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith... Lees meer

The Phantom Carriage

Selma Lagerlof

• Paperback | Engels | World of Discovery (Norvik Press)
• 'Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlöf's The Phantom Carriage is a powerful combination of ghost story and social realism, partly played out among the slums... Lees meer

Bang

Dorrit Willumsen

• Paperback | Engels | B | nr. 73
• 29 January 1912. In a train compartment in Ogden, Utah, a Danish author was found unconscious. The 54-year-old Herman Bang was en route from New York ... Lees meer

Witches' Rings

Ekman Kerstin

• Paperback | Engels | Women and the City
• "Stories," the narrator of Witches' Rings tells us, "are wiser than we, and more mindful, and slowly they change us." Kerstin Ekman's stories are deep... Lees meer