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Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen
Category: Fiction
'"Beatles" is the story of Kim Karlsen and his three buddies, Gunnar, Ola and Seb - and, yes, they occasionally like to think of themselves as the Fab Four. They were born in 1951, and the story starts with the first wave of Beatlemania in Norway, in the spring of 1965. Each chapter tales a different Be ...Show more
Echoes of the City by Lars Saabye Christensen
Category: Fiction
A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen's crowning achievement - an intricate and utterly compelling narrative. Christensen is one of Scandinavia's finest and most celebrated storytellers, who has devoted the best part of his career to writing about the city of his b ...Show more
Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nordic Prize 2002, The Half Brother has already sold more than 150,000 copies in Norway alone and is set to become an international sensation within the year. This literary marvel tells the story of an ordinary Norwegian family in the 1960s, set apart by extraordinary family members, and o ...Show more
Herman by Lars Saabye Christensen
Category: Fiction
Sometimes in the smallest of boys, there beats the biggest of hearts. Eleven-year-old Herman is a normal boy. He's just starting to notice girls and, in turn, be noticed by them. He is not that different from other boys, until the day he wakes up to discover that he's losing his hair...all of it. Presen ...Show more
The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
Category: Fiction
Barnum and Fred are half-brothers, growing up in sixties Oslo. Barnum seems to have stopped growing, while his half-brother, frustrated by learning difficulties, is sent away to a special school. Theirs is an ordinary Norwegian family of the time, set apart by extraordinary family members. Their father ...Show more
The Model by Lars Saabye Christensen
Category: Fiction
The painter Peter Wih is about to turn 50 and open a major new exhibition. The gallery owner warns him: ‘To be honest, you can’t afford to repeat yourself anymore. Evil tongues say that if you’re going to paint more body parts, you’ll soon have to start with the internal organs.’ Peter is married to Hel ...Show more
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