8 Best danish books like Ifølge loven: Fire beretninger om mennesket by Solvej Balle

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Ifølge loven: Fire beretninger om mennesket

By: Solvej Balle

3.52

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Translated as 'According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind' published December 1996.

If you liked the danish plot in Ifølge loven: Fire beretninger om mennesket by Solvej Balle , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Histoire de la violence

By: Édouard Louis

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more

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  • fiction
"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

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2. Gå. Eller kunsten å leve et vilt og poetisk liv

By: Tomas Espedal

3.94

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Denne romanen handler om å gå - å gå om igjen gater fra barndommen, å gå i fremmede land, men også … read more

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  • scandinavian literature
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3. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

4. Mount København

By: Kaspar Colling Nielsen

3.95

Format: 145 pages,

Titlens bjerg er et bygningsvaerk, der har vaeret 200 ar undervejs. Mount Kobenhavn er 3500 meter h… read more

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5. Lejlighedssange

By: Stine Pilgaard

4.42

Format: None pages,

Lejlighedssange er et netvaerk af fortaellinger om en gruppe mennesker, der er bundet sammen af and… read more

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6. 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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  • 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

7. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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8. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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  • fiction
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

9. Gift

By: Tove Ditlevsen , Dy Plambeck

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

I sin tredje erindringsbog vender Tove Ditlevsen tilbage til sin ungdom og fortaeller om det kaerli… read more

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10. 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

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11. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

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"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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12. The Hole

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.49

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more

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  • fiction
"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

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13. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
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14. Jeg anerkender ikke længere jeres autoritet

By: Glenn Bech

4.30

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

JEG ANERKENDER IKKE LÆNGERE JERES AUTORITET er et indigneret, selvudleverende og ømt manifest om kl… read more

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  • danish
Cover of Penge på lommen (Scandinavian Star, #1) by Asta Olivia Nordenhof

15. Penge på lommen (Scandinavian Star, #1)

By: Asta Olivia Nordenhof

3.88

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Penge på lommen er første del af en romanføljeton, der har mordbranden på Scandinavian Star som et … read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • danish
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16. Djævlebogen (Scandinavian Star, #2)

By: Asta Olivia Nordenhof

3.82

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Djævlebogen er en erotisk gyser og en roman om kærlighed i kapitalismens tid. Djævlebogen er den læ… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • danish
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17. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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18. 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
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19. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

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20. Superskurk

By: Anna Juul

4.21

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

Superskurk er en rå, akut og kærlig bog skrevet inde fra en psykisk sygdom. Anna har kæmpet med psy… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • danish
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21. Kun til navlen

By: Linea Maja Ernst

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Linea Maja Ernst debuterer med Kun til navlen, en samtidsroman om at være fanget i en livsfase og p… read more

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  • fiction
  • danish
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22. A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

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23. Femten år. Den revolusjonære våren

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.65

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Vigdis Hjorth skriver lysende og innsiktsfullt om et ungt liv, om å oppdage løgn og velge å leve sa… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Spræng fabrikken

By: Malte Tellerup

3.62

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Spræng fabrikken er lige dele spændingsroman og sabotagemanual. Vi følger tre unge venner planlægge… read more

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25. Barbar [Tavshedens objekt]

By: Amina Elmi

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

BARBAR [Tavshedens objekt] er en digtsamling om brutalitet. Amina Elmi skriver om at leve med en ka… read more

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26. Love in the New Millennium

By: Can Xue

3.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist workin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. Solar

By: Theis Ørntoft

3.22

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

SOLAR begynder, da den unge sortseende økodigter Theis begiver sig ud på en vandretur ned ad Hærvej… read more

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  • fiction
  • danish
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28. Underskud

By: Emma Holten

4.36

Format: 288 pages, None

Økonomiens sprog er overalt. Når politikere, chefer og økonomer siger, der “ikke er råd” eller noge… read more

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  • danish
"Det er nemt at gøre grin med Svampe-Hobbes Firkant, men Locke har samme problem."

-Emma Holten, Underskud

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29. Gravgaver: Fragmentarium (Norwegian Edition)

By: Tor Ulven

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Unknown Binding

Gravgaver, Ulvens første prosabog, regnes for hans hovedværk og vakte betydelig opmærksomhed da den… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Ifølge loven: Fire beretninger om mennesket

By: Solvej Balle

3.52

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Translated as 'According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind' published December 1996. read more

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  • short stories
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
  • danish
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31. Din vilja sitter i skogen

By: Mattias Timander

4.08

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

En ung man växer upp i en by där de långa linjerna är allt. Ingen talar om, och minns kanske inte h… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like Ifølge loven: Fire beretninger om mennesket by Solvej Balle

Transform Your Habits

Histoire de la violence

Édouard Louis

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Hunger

Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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Nattskolen (Morgenstjernen, #4)

Karl Ove Knausgård

4.37

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Penge på lommen (Scandinavian Star, #1)

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

3.88

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Stacken

Annika Norlin

4.16

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