Kruttårnet
By: Jens Bjørneboe
4.25
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
The story, which is really an anti-story, as this is an anti-novel, is told by Jean, a janitor in a…
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1. Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.22
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn … read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
"Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they sa…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"All the drinking reinforced my unease, and since nothing of what I did gave me anything back, I became more and more worn down, it was as though I was being drained, I became emptier and emptier, and…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"Why didn't they drink? Why didn't everyone drink? Alcohol makes everything big, it is a wind blowing through your consciousness, it is crashing waves and swaying forests, and the light it transmits g…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
"[I]n music there is no meaning, there is no explanation, there are no people, only voices, each with its own special distinctive quality, as though this is its essential quality, its essence, unadult…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- fiction
4. Growth of the Soil
By: Knut Hamsun
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian … read more
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- fiction
- classics
- scandinavian literature
- 20th century
5. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
6. Min kamp 6 (Min kamp #6)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanvaerk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgard nadelost og … read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
7. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- fiction
"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
8. A Time for Everything
By: James Anderson , Karl Ove Knausgård
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles … read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
9. Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solita… read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
10. Ham on Rye
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more
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11. The Birds
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more
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12. Min kamp 5 (Min kamp #5)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Femte bind av den selvbiografiske romanen Min kamp er skrevet med voldsom kraft og oppriktighet. Ka… read more
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13. Min kamp 3 (Min kamp #3)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.97
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
MIN KAMP 3 er en roman om barndom. En familie pa fire, mor, far og to drenge flytter til et hus i e… read more
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14. Hvite Niggere
By: Ingvar Ambjørnsen
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hvite niggere er en brei, generos og brutal fortelling om outsiderne, i oppror mot et skinnhellig o… read more
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15. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- scandinavian literature
- fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
16. War with the Newts
By: Karel Čapek , Ewald Osers
4.17
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- 20th century
"V holandských koloniích žádní čerti nejsou; jsou-li nějací, tedy ve francouzských. kapitán J. van Toch"-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
"Without a sense of art, it is impossible ever to think of something new. We need to be poets if we are to keep the world moving."-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
"His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange his cuttings under the indulgent eyes of Mrs. Povondra who knew that every man is …"-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
"They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politician or a businessman; how am I supposed to persuade them about these things. What are we supposed …"-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts
17. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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18. Shyness and Dignity
By: Sverre Lyngstad , Dag Solstad
3.96
Format: 433 pages,
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society--publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th annive… read more
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19. Measuring the World
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the live… read more
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20. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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21. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
22. Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
By: Knut Hamsun , Sverre Lyngstad
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost… read more
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23. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
24. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
25. Nattskolen (Morgenstjernen, #4)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.37
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
Årets roman fra Karl Ove Knausgård, «Nattskolen», inngår i det store Morgenstjernen-verket som åpne… read more
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- fiction
26. Stakkar
By: Matias Faldbakken
3.74
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
"En gang for ikke lenge siden kom et barn, stakkar, krypende ut fra skogen. Ungen kløv opp grøfteka… read more
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- fiction
27. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.94
Format: 666 pages, Hardcover
It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
28. The Third Realm (Morgenstjernen, #3)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face o… read more
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- scandinavian literature
- fiction
29. Winter (Seasons Quartet, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.85
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beaut… read more
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- scandinavian literature
"I don’t know what is more frightening: a creature on a small planet worshipping itself and its world as if infinity did not exist, or a creature who burns its fellow beings because the infinite does …"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Winter (Seasons Quartet, #2)
"I think all cultural epochs are characterised by these two modes, the existence of a future and the absence of a future, and the strange thing is that culture seems to strive towards the absence of f…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Winter (Seasons Quartet, #2)
"O outono é uma passagem, um tempo de esvaziamento: da luz no céu, do calor no ar, das folhas nas árvores e plantas. O inverno que se segue é um estado, nele é a imobilidade que impera. A terra endure…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Winter (Seasons Quartet, #2)
"Every single moment of life stands open in several directions, it is as if it had three or seven doors, as in a fairy tail, into rooms that all contain different futures. These hypothetical offshoots…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Winter (Seasons Quartet, #2)
30. Das Feld
By: Robert Seethaler
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Wenn die Toten auf ihr Leben zurückblicken könnten, wovon würden sie erzählen? Wäre es eine Geschic… read more
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- fiction
"Ik heb het over echte waanzin. Waanzin die een stropdas draagt en gepoetste schoenen. De waanzin die 's avonds naar de badkamerspiegel knikt en niet meer bijkomt van het lachen, omdat hij weet dat hi…"-Robert Seethaler, Das Feld
31. Kruttårnet
By: Jens Bjørneboe
4.25
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
The story, which is really an anti-story, as this is an anti-novel, is told by Jean, a janitor in a… read more
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- philosophy
- 20th century
- fiction
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