Lars-Saabye Christensen

• Jan-1995
• / General Fiction
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Hans Windelband finds himself, at twenty-six, among the living dead. Somehow, his life has gone terribly astray, but caught in a web of despair, he lacks the strength or desire to try and determine what went wrong until he opens the morning newspaper...

• Feb-2004
• / General Fiction
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At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera’s young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship wit...

• Feb-2007
• / Psychological Suspense
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The painter Peter Wihl - a celebrated success early in his career - is about to turn fifty. The prospect is stifling his creativity and jeopardising his preparations for a major new exhibition intended to revive his reputation. In a cruel twist of fa...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction
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Eleven-year-old Herman is not that different from other boys--except that he is going bald. Presented with this dilemma, Herman uses his fertile imagination and comical viewpoint on life to navigate through the rough seas commonly known as "growing u...

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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'"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...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen's crowning achievement - an intricate and utterly compelling narrative."With its tonal nuance and quietly amusing melancholy, Echoes of the City confirms him as one of Norwa...

• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction
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Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City, by an author who understands the city like no other."One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN"Profoundly resonant" TLS In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down...