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  • The Mannequin Murder

    A Novel

    by Ingvild Schade ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    Meet Karsten—a little Holden Caulfield, a little Patrick Bateman—in this delirious, darkly comic stream of consciousness from one of Norway’s great literary talents, thrillingly translated by Kari Dickson.For your average fourteen-year-old, it would be a normal, middle-class life: father’s a doctor, mother’s an English teacher, a baby sister toddles aimlessly around the house in sagging diapers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Case of the Caprice of Lost Time

    by Rune Christiansen ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    From award–winning Norwegian author Rune Christiansen comes an absorbing and exquisite story about one woman's search for independence and a sense of belonging, and the unearthing of family secrets.Two months following her mother's death, Norma travels alone to visit her father, Torsten, with whom she has had a strained relationship since her parents divorced. Recently separated herself, Norma is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life

    by Rune Christiansen ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    Series series Literature in Translation Series
    Winner of Norway's Brage PrizeHaving grown up as an only child in Northern Sweden, Lydia is used to isolation and being on her own. She fills her days with her love of animals, nature, and hard work. She eventually settles into a career as a vet in rural Norway and embraces the rhythms of country life. In a series of poetic sketches, Lydia tends to the animals in her community, spends time with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Something That Helps

    by Mona Høvring ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    From acclaimed Norwegian writer Mona Høvring comes an intimate and stirring coming-of-age and sexual awakening story of a young woman following her own path to destruction and reconciliation.Laura is in her late teens, living in a small coastal town in Western Norway, the summer before her final year of school. Haunted by the death of her mother by suicide, she has a strained relationship with her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • After the North Pole

    A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice

    by Erling Kagge ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    "A dazzling book — soulful, awe-inspiring, and deeply thought-provoking. Erling Kagge takes readers on a journey they’ll never forget." — Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life"After the North Pole is a thrilling, insightful, and magical journey with something to interest readers of all stripes." — Shelf AwarenessFrom acclaimed Norwegian explorer, philosopher, and writer ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bedtime for Bo

    by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold ...
    Illustrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen ...
    A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2022 ★ Stretch like a giraffe and snuggle like a meerkat with Bo and Mommy as they get ready for bed!It’s time for bed, but little Bo isn’t ready to stop playing quite yet! As his mother gamely guides him through his nighttime routine, he imitates various animals—a hibernating bear after eating a snack, a snuggling sea ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Present Tense Machine

    A Novel

    by Gunnhild Øyehaug ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    "An ingenious pocket universe." —Caitlin Horrocks, The New York Times Book Review"Gunnhild Øyehaug is a magician of the highest rank."—Catherine LaceyOn an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe opens up, and Laura ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High

    A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China

    by Erika Fatland ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prize-winning author Erika Fatland (The Border and Sovietistan), on a journey along the Himalaya.The Himalaya weave through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless languages and vastly different cultures live in the secluded mountain ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born

    by Mona Høvring ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson, Rachel Rankin ...
    Series series Literature in Translation Series
    Winner of Norway's Dobloug PrizeWinner of the Norwegian Critics' Prize for LiteratureFinalist for the Norwegian Booksellers' PrizeIn a hotel, high up in a mountain village, two sisters aim to reconnect after distant years that contrast their close, almost twin-like upbringing. Martha has just been discharged from a sanatorium after a mental breakdown. Ella agrees to keep her company in the hope ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest

    by Rune Christiansen ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    Series series Literature in Translation Series
    Finalist for Norway's Brage PrizeFanny, a 17-year-old high school senior, has lost both her parents in a car accident. Granted permission to live independently in the family home located on the outskirts of a small Norwegian town, the days pass by as she performs her daily routine: going to school, maintaining the house, chopping and stacking wood, and keeping the weeds at bay. As Fanny grieves ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evil Flowers

    Stories

    by Gunnhild Øyehaug ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots, a collection of playfully surreal stories about love, death, and metamorphosis.In Evil Flowers, a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild Øyehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life.In her new collection, Øyehaug renovates the form again and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Whisperer

    A Novel

    by Karin Fossum ...
    Translated by Kari Dickson ...
    Series Book 13 - Inspector Sejer Mysteries
    In this tense and twisty latest from Norway’s maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer’s interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man—or did she?How did a lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man—or did she?Ragna Riegel is a soft-spoken woman of routines. She must have order in her life, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD