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  • Sjur Gabriel and Two Friends
    Amalie Skram / Janet Garton
    The peasant farmer Sjur Gabriel struggles to make a living on a rocky and windswept smallholding in southwestern Norway, battling not only the elements but also his wife Oline’s intermittent alcoholism. The family lives in grinding poverty with no prospects of a better life for their children, until the birth of a late son, little Gabriel, brings joy and hope into the lives of ...
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  • Berge
    Jan Kjærstad / Janet Garton
    One August day in 2008 the Norwegian Labour Party's most colourful MP, Arve Storefjeld, is discovered in a remote cabin in the country, together with four of his family and friends, all with their throats slit. This unprecedented crime in the peaceful backwater of Norway sends shudders through the national psyche, as the search for the perpetrators begins and people have to...
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  • Lobster Life
    Erik Fosnes Hansen / Janet Garton
    Life in a grand Norwegian mountain hotel is not what it used to be; Norwegians have deserted the traditions of their nati- ve land, with its invigorating ski trips and lake-fresh trout, for charter tours to ‘the infernal south’. Sedd’s grandparents are fighting a losing battle to maintain standards at Fåvnesheim hotel, which has been in the family for generations, whilst the y...
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    19,07 €

  • Little Lord
    Johan Borgen / Janet Garton
    Wilfred - alias Little Lord - is a privileged young man growing up in upper-class society in Kristiania (Oslo) during the halcyon days before the First World War. Beneath the strikingly well-adjusted surface, however, runs a darker current; he is haunted by the sudden death of his father and driven to escape the stifling care of his mother for risky adventures in Kristiania’s c...
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    19,30 €

  • The Defence of a Madman
    August Strindberg / Carol Sanders / Janet Garton
    This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg’s life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen. It purports to be a vehicle for explaining to himself his role in the relationship from its ecstatic beginnings to its catastrophic conclusion. Strindberg was writing at the time of the modern women’s movement and the intense Nordic debate on sexual m...
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    19,40 €

  • The God of Chance
    Kirsten Thorup / Janet Garton
    The God of Chance focuses on the relationship between Ana, a high-flying Danish career woman from the international finance sector whose work is her life, and the young teenager Mariama, two women whose circumstances are completely different. Ana first meets Mariama selling snacks on a beach in Gambia, and the girl gradually becomes a substitute for the family she has never had...
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    17,66 €

  • Norwegian Women’s Writing 1850-1990
    Janet Garton
    Volume One in a new series, this book covers Norwegian women’s writing over the last 150 years, setting literary developments against the background of the emergence and growth of the women’s movement in Norway. The work is divided chronologically into three sections: the period up to 1913, when the universal suffrage was granted; the period from 1913 to 1960, a time of stagnat...
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    155,46 €