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 …
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1. 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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2. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.88
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more
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"Were the “pampas,"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
3. 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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4. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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5. 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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- fantasy
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6. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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7. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
8. Lanzarote
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse,… read more
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9. 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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"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
10. The Last Wolf & Herman
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai , John Batki
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The Last Wolffeatures a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake,… read more
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11. 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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12. 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
13. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
14. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
15. Naustet
By: Jon Fosse
3.83
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Tre dagar ein sommar utspeler det seg ei trekanthistorie mellom eg-personen, barndomskameraten Knut… read more
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"Eg går ikke ut lenger, ei uro er kommen over meg, og eg går ikkje ut."-Jon Fosse, Naustet
16. 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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"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
17. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
18. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
19. Vi er fem
By: Matias Faldbakken
3.77
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Matias Faldbakkens femte roman er en bygdefortelling helt utenom det vanlige. På Råset, tre timer n… read more
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20. Om udregning af rumfang II
By: Solvej Balle
3.96
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
''Om udregning af rumfang II'' er anden del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele. Tara Selter er ef… read more
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21. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
22. Welcome to America
By: Linda Boström Knausgård
3.55
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Ellen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself… read more
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"Sömnen kom som en mörk dimma varje natt. Den lade sig över mig och jag hade bara någon centimeters luft mellan mitt ansikte och dimman."-Linda Boström Knausgård, Welcome to America
"Dagar och nätter liknar varandra. Tystnaden mjukar upp konturerna så att allt kläs i ett slags dis. Vi kan kalla det halvdager. Vi kan kalla det vad som helst."-Linda Boström Knausgård, Welcome to America
"It was all so easy. My mum says it was denial. That I wanted life to pass me by, instead of standing there getting drenched in it like everyone else. She thought less of me now, that was hardly surpr…"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Welcome to America
23. 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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"...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
24. Om udregning af rumfang III
By: Solvej Balle
4.13
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
''Om udregning af rumfang III'' er tredje del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i ge… read more
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25. The Garden of Seven Twilights
By: Miquel de Palol i Muntanyola
3.99
Format: 885 pages, Paperback
During an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a lu… read more
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26. 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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27. Hyper
By: Agri Ismaïl
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
When Rafiq Kermanj, founder of the Kurdish Communist Party, is forced to flee Tehran for London wit… read more
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- fiction
28. Oktoberbarn
By: Linda Boström Knausgård
3.67
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Periodvis mellan 2013 och 2017 är författaren tvångsinlagd på en psykiatrisk avdelning, där hon uts… read more
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"Why do I torture myself with memories from those years? What is it that's still not resolved, over and done with? I mean, what distances haven't I traveled since then? All young people do violence to…"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn
"I've always known I can write as though it were a matter of life or death. It is a matter of life or death. But life isn't meaningless when I'm not writing. The writing lives inside of me, I'm just w…"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn
"I've always held myself in high esteem. No one needed to tell me I was good at writing: All I would have to do was sit down and the words would come. I knew like you knew you'd be capable of killing …"-Linda Boström Knausgård, Oktoberbarn
29. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
30. 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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"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
31. Love
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.63
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their dis… read more
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"He looks at her as he listens, smiling when she's finished. She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the …"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
"The sound of the car. When he's waiting he can never quite recall it. I've forgotten, he tells himself. But then it comes back to him, often in pauses between the waiting, after he's stopped thinking…"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
