Tiden 2013 English

8/11/2019 Tiden 2013 English

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ENGLISH2013


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W E P U B L I S H


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Gaute Heivoll,Across the China Sea, novel

Nicolai Houm,Heres Whats Wrong With the Lindbergs, novel

Ida Hegazi Hyer,Out of it, novel

Jens M. Johansson, Weddings and Funerals, novel

Henrik H. Langeland,Spinmeister, novel

Mari Lindbck, Come Home, novel

Svein Roger Nilsen,Electrical Forest, short stories

Eirik Skrede, ouch Bottom, novelVidar Sundstl, Te Obsession, thriller

Ellen Mari Telle, Everlasting, novel

Hilde stby, Encyclopedia of Love and Longing, novel

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Contents


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NICOLAI HOUM

(b. 1974) debuted with the critically acclaimed novel Knekknakken min venn(Break Your Neck, My Friend) in 2004. Sincethen he has written a collection of short stories and a picturebook. Houm lives on a small farm in Lier, Norway, with his familyand works part time as a publishing editor.

Photo:PaalAudestad

Critically acclaimed Nicolai Houm is poised to make a splashwith this exceptionally original and successful attempt towrite the great Norwegian novel.

Te wide-reaching, epic narrative ollows the Lindberg amilyrom the 1960s to the present. An elegant jump in time allowsus to get to know Arne Lindberg, a businessman who is at times

sorely tested, his wie Elise, and the childhoods and later thecareers o their three children: Ambitious author and surer,Joachim; ballet dancer and rebel, Tea; and ever-doubting armychaplain, Christoffer.

Te Lindberg amily serves as the epicenter o Houms vividportrayal o a Norway thats continually changing, rom theknowledge revolution and student lie o the 1960s, throughthe new wealth and Blitz concerts o the 1980s, to Aghanistanand the new opera house in the 2000s. But the people andthe stormy relationships between them are always ront and

center in the story.

A amily saga, knstlerroman, portrait o a post modern society,and love story filled with humor, grie, despair, and hope, am-ily ties, betrayals, and suspense, Heres Whats Wrong With theLindbergsis in every sense a great novel.

Original title:De hpefulleCover design:Blst | Terese Moe Leiner

650 pagesForeign rights:Tiden

Nicolai Houm

Heres Whats Wrong With the Lindbergs

Quote:

Norway has got a new writer of international format. Hisname is Nicolai Houm. Sharp, sophisticated, amusing,

thrilling, profound. Houm really masters the novelin all its facets.

(Henrik H. Langeland, author o Wonderboy)


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IDA HEGAZI HYER

(b. 1981) debuted in 2012 with the critically acclaimed novelUnder verden(Beneath the World). She lives outside Oslo.

Photo:IvanTostrup

Te first time I notice that something is wrong is a Wednesday inFebruary. It appears as a bright white og and enters the garden,into the walls, like a reight train, like a butterfly. Like a differenthouse within the house.

Tis is the opening o Out o it, an intense novel about a womanbalancing a fine line in the conormity o everyday lie, but eels

the orce o something large and unavoidable. At work, at home,within hersel.

Out o itshows the neccesity o taking risks, how dangerous itcan be looking at onesel in the mirror, how love can take sur-prising orms and how a seemingly simple existence can holddeep, complex, dark and comical depths.

Original title: Ut

Cover design:Blst | Aud Gloppen200 pagesForeign rights:Tiden

Ida Hegazi Hyer

Out o it

Praise or Beneath the World:

Ida Hegazi Hyer has written a rebellious, intelligent andwell-composed debut novel about finding a home.

She should be a strong candidate for the debut awards.Merete Rsvik Granlund, Dag og id

Beneath the Worldis a debut that deserves the uttermostrespect.

Marta Norheim, Kulturnytt NRK

() an exciting and easily enjoyed debut.Maya roberg Djuve, Dagbladet

Unusually well-written debut () Tere is nothing aboutBeneath the Worldthat reminds you of a first-time effort.

Fartein Horgar, Adresseavisen


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JENS M. JOHANSSON

(b. 1971) debuted in 2002 with a short story collection whichalso told the story of a father who dies and a young son who isleft behind with his grief. Weddings and Funerals is his fourthnovel.

A close, urgent and autobiographical novel about those whoare closest to us, and the fear of losing everything.

Weddings and unerals. Anniverseries and birthdays. Christ-mas parties and Sunday dinners. Te amily is gathered, andeach time it is as i the entire story is being told. Everyone youlove. Everyone you are loved by. Te disappointments you carry

with you. Hopes. Te gif or which you express gratitude orbecause it is the thought that counts. Te sorrow that burnsthrough everything.

Jens is only 22 years old when his ather dies o a heart attack.He did not even turn fify. Nearly twenty years later his motheralls over. Doctors call it a malaise, without being able to saymuch more. But her memory is affected. Months have disapper-ared. I am nothing without my memories, she says.

His parents divorced when Jens was only three years old. Tey

both remarried and had new children in different countries,and what had been only his, the memory o the little amily othree, has always been something small, yet crucial. Now, withhis mothers ailing memory, this story is suddenly about todisappear.

Original title:Bryllup og begravelserCover design:Exil Design

350 pagesForeign rights: Tiden

Jens M. Johansson

Weddings and Funerals

Photo:PaalAudestad

Quote:Beautiful, fun and unspeakably sad, as life itself. Its a

lovely book, my son, although I do not always like myselfin it. Tats probably because what you write is true.

(ext rom the authors mother)


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HENRIK H. LANGELAND

(b. 1972 in Oslo) received his literary breakthrough with the novelWonderboyin 2003. In 2007 he published The Manuscript, a novelfrom the University of Oslo, where the author himself delivered hisdoctoral thesis on Marcel Proust. In 2010 he started The WorldChampions, a series about Oslo in the 1980s and -90s.

Christian von der Hall has gradually built himsel up to becomean important player in the Norwegian public relations industry.Now he aces his greatest task ever: He has been assigned toensure that the conservative party Hyre wins the upcomingparliamentary election. It is crucial that nothing goes wrong

As one might expect, however, stumbling blocks just seem to

pile up in ront o him. He does afer all move in a world oministers and PR consultants, sensation-hungry journalists andambitious political advisors, so it is easy to make mistakes. Inhis private lie he tries hard to make his two teenage kids andex-wie essa happy. Does he secretly want her back? In thatcase, what is he doing in bed with Hyres rising star, the gor-geous Ayla?

Langeland has written a superbly entertaining novel. Spin-meister is ull o suspense and comedy at the same time. Andoffers a sensational peek behind the curtains o a power strug-

gle where only the smartest can survive.

Original title:Fyrsten

Cover design:Blst | Terese Moe Leiner429 pages

Foreign rights: Gyldendal Agency, Oslo.Contact:Anne Cathrine Eng([email protected]).Publishers (Wonderboy): Denmark/Gyldendal, Germa-ny/Bastei Lbbe, Latvia/Zvagzne ABC, Litauen/AlmaLittera, Russland/Amphora, Sverige/Norstedts

Henrik H. Langeland

Spinmeister

Photo:LinneaSyversen

Praise or Spinmeister:

Spinmeisteris great fun to read. Tere arent many writerswho can beat Langeland at this game.

rjan Greiff Johnsen, Adresseavisa

More than anything else,Spinmeisteris a well spun, talltale about modern Norways cornucopia of senseless wasteand our firm conviction that anything worth having can be

bought including power and influence.Lei Ekle, NRK


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MARI LINDBCK

(b. 1973) debuted in 2004. Come Homeis her third novel.

Lisbeth works or the Swede. Tere is always a package to col-lect or deliver. She knows what the packages contain, but she ispaid well, and she likes the idea o what the Swede thinks abouther. She lives alone with a cat, but suddenly one day the cat isgone, and Lisbeths world begins to alter.

Her mom has moved to Tailand. Her sister lives with her a-

ther in the north. Lisbeth only had the cat, and the Swede ocourse, but when he starts having problems, Lisbeth has to takecontrol o her own lie.

Come Homeis a novel about a young girl unsecured rom any-thing but hersel. But is it enough?

Come Home is on Norwegian 100 list o the best easily readbooks published in recent years.

Original title:Kom hjemCover design:Are Kleivan206 pagesForeign rights:Tiden

Mari Lindbck

Come Home

Photo:MariLindbck


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SVEIN ROGER NILSEN

(b. 1967) is aqualified social worker and trained in treatingaddiction. He has written short story collections, a novel and achildrens book. Lives in Drammen, works in Drammen, writesabout Drammen.

Vienna, 1909. Dr Freud writes about his meeting with Mr. L.in his journal. An interesting case where old demons have tobe exorcised, or at least conronted. But what meaning do thebirds the patient eels pursued by, hold? And what crime dothey hide? In a small village, several fires are started within aew weeks. Te first investigations provide no clear answers. Anexpert is summoned and visits the rubble in search o the per-

petrator. A boy discovers that the people he surrounds himselwith are really only one thing: enemies. Tey are many, and cannot be overcome. Not yet.

Te our novels inElectrical Forest are all about the dark andhidden, about motives and consequences o actions that no onecan see. Svein Roger Nilsen has written a collection o shortstories about lie that occurs in the shadow o dark secrets.

Original title: Den elektriske skogen

Cover design:Asbjrn Jensen

204 pagesForeign rights:Tiden

Svein Roger Nilsen

Electrical Forest

Photo:PaalAudestad

() about to enter the elite of Norwegian writers.Stein Roll, Adresseavisen


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EIRIK A. SKREDE

(b. 1980) debuted in 2010 with the poetry collection D-dendden (Deathdeath). It was quite the collection. In Touchbottomhe continues in the same direction: with quite the novel.

Milli is a boy not quite like the others. His amily is airly ordi-nary. His dad yells and his mom keeps quiet, but ortunately hehas an older brother to stick it out with. But inside Milli chaosrules. His view o the world is vigorous, boiling, reckless andsharp, despite the act that he ofen does not understand what isreally going on out there. What does his ather want? What doesthe world want? And why is everything going to hell?

P bunnenis a coming o age story similar to many others. Butstill, this is something completely different. As a reader youmay recognize the props the silent mother, the strict ather,the house, the bay, the older brother but at the same time thebook takes you to another world. o dreams about a giant spi-der. o old men masturbated in a nursing home. o lighten-ing. o death and destruction. And to the wildest fishing trip inNorwegian literature. Did we mention it is unny?

Original title:P bunnen

Cover design:Stian Hole275 pagesForeign rights: Tiden

Eirik Andr Skrede

ouch Bottom

Photo:PaalAudestad


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ELLEN MARI THELLE

(b. 1977) debuted in 2009 with En del av historien(Part of theStory) which also had Elise Falck as the protagonist.Everlastingis her second novel.

Te same dream almost every night. Te life that cannot besaved. Te same longing every day. Te dream of somethingthat will last.

A amily lie. An everyday lie. How hard can it be?

Te impossible task o being a good enough mother or Helle

and Guro is the starting point o this part o the story aboutElise Falck. But it is also the story o Elise and Hans, about Vig-dis, about dreams and reality, and the impossible task o escap-ing onesel.

Ellen Mari Telle has written an exploratory, warm and desper-ate novel about a amily that eels almost too amiliar.

Original title:Det bestandige

Cover design:Exil Design

290 pagesForeign rights: Tiden

Photo:KristineWindjuThelle

Ellen Mari Telle

Everlasting


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VIDAR SUNDSTL

(b. 1963) had his breakthrough with the award winning and criti-cally acclaimed Minnesota trilogy, sold to several countries. Helives with his family in Telemark, Norway.

o learn the truth about his father, he will have to learn thetruth about the tomb of Alexander the Great.

Journalist Clive Ohre is brutally attacked in Alexandria bysomeone who is clearly looking or one thing: a Roman coingiven to Clive by his ather years earlier. His ather, an archae-ologist, disappeared without a trace in Pompeii when Clive was

14 years old, and his disappearance still remains a mystery.

Clive is in Alexandria to write a story about the search or thelegendary tomb o Alexander the Great. In Egypt he encountersthe beautiul Egyptian-American archaeologist Aisha Badawi.When one o her colleagues is ound killed, and the last call reg-istered on the victims phone is Clives, he finds himsel aboutto ace interrogations, suspected o murder. And the murdersuspicion is about to become the least o his worries in a worldwhere ew people are who they pretend to be.

Powerul orces are in play to solve the mystery around thetomb o Alexander the Great, but there are those who want themystery to remain a secret. At any cost.

Original title:BesettelsenCover design:Marius Renberg400 pagesForeign rights:Andrew Nurnberg Associates, LondonContact:Marei Pittner ([email protected])Publishers: Denmark/C&K, France/ Grasset&Fasquelle,Germany/Hoffmann und Campe, Iceland/Uppheimar,Italy/Einaudi, The Netherlands/Ambo Anthos, USA/Uni-versity of Minnesota Press

Vidar Sundstl

Te Obsession

Photo:PaalAudestad

Praise orthe Minnesota rilogy:

Crime fiction of the highest quality () powerful and wellwritten. Vidar SundstlsMinnesota rilogyis some of thebest that has been written in this country for many years

Dagbladet (Norway)

Te first of SundstlsMinnesota trilogyto be published inthe U.S. is literate, lyrically descriptive, and mystical. Te

next cant come too soon.Kirkus Reviews, starred review


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HILDE STBY

(b. 1975) grew up in Oslo. She holds a PhD in History of Ideaswith a thesis on Shakespeare, and has worked as a journalistand critic, publishing editor and communications consultant.Encyclopedia of Love and Longingis her first novel.

Encyclopedia of Love and Longingis a remarkable, clever andrich debut novel about the nature and history of love.

Liv Vestby sets out to write an encyclopedic work rom A to Z,affirming the notion o love at first sight, while depicting thestories o the biggest heroes in the history o longing.

In the encyclopedia we find the story o Dante Alighieri andBeatrice, the creation o the Morse alphabet, the actual truthabout Romeo and Juliet, and the revelation o how Anne Boleyngot her Henry VIII and lost him again. But there is more. Wemeet the biblical heroine Onana, Venus o Milo, Napoleon,Diderot, Joan o Arc, Judas, a librarian in love and an unhappybicycle repairman. In addition, both Werther and Quisling,Lolita, Grace Kelly and the 1970 English soccer team are centralcharacters. Te encyclopedia is ortified with Liv Vestbys ownreflections and experiences concerning love, and a record romthe narrators own dentist.

But who is really the editor behind this encyclopedia, Liv Vestby,and what is her story?

Original title:Leksikon om lengsel

Cover design: Exil Design243 pages

Hilde stby

Encyclopedia o Love and Longing

Photo:LinneaSyversen


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Tis is an alphabetical journey into love and longing with several of litteraturesgreatest heroes as main characters. If you mix this with a spontaneous, but thorough

language, wild lies and a lot of humour, you get the result, and it is great.Mari Nymoen Nilsen, VG

For this reader, sparks are flying off the pages. Te reflections over religion, myths,art and eroticism it is simply remarkable, written beautifully.

Stein Roll, Adresseavisen

In its presentation, design, Encyclopedia of Love and Longingis a stroke of genious() In a slightly moving and forthright way, the book is like a tribute to love,

especially the unfulfilled.Bjrn Gabrielsen, Dagens Nringsliv

Encyclopedia of Love and Longingis a rich, fantastical, complex novel that engagesthe reader () Te book should also have great potential outside Norway.

Vidar Kvalshaug, Afenposten

Encyclopedia of Love and Longingis Hilde stbys debut novel, which is hard tobelieve; the idea is so original, the language so thorough and distinct, and the level of

knowledge is impressive.Kari Nygaard, Haugesunds avis

Encyclopedia of Love and Longing is a surplus amongst books, full of masks andgames mixed with humour and wisdom.

Per Buvik, Morgenbladet

Encyclopedia of Love and Longingis a highlight out of all the debut novels. stbywrites confidently and almost sparkling: Te book is laced with longing and despair,

but first and foremost, intense existence.Silje Bekeng, Klassekampen

A surplus amongst novels, full of width, eroticism and knowledge.Maya roberg Djuve, Dagbladet

Tis is poetic license, mixed with a lot of knowledge, fresh sparks and burlesquehumour. I strongly believe Hilde stby`s writing

even though she is lying her ears off.Anne Schffer, Bergens idende

It is made with considerable wit and humor, while this is primarily entertainingreading, written by a debutant with a sense of considerable literary ingenuity.

Geir Vestad, Hamar Arbeiderblad

Te author has a very fertile imagination and a sparkling capability in formulation.

Tis novel has only one weakness, it is too short.om H. Dalbak, Magasinet ekna

Praise or Encyclopedia o Love and Longing:


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