Norwegian Literature

To dødsdømte fanger skal overføres til et annet fengsel. Tee Beau Latiolais, som ser ut som et barn i voksne klær, og Jimmie Lee Boggs, en profesjonell leiemorder. Ansvarlig for transporten er førstebetjent Dave Robicheaux. De flykter og etterlater seg to lik og en hårdt såret Dave Robicheaux. Og dette er bare begynnelsen. Minos Dautrieve, en gammel venn av Dave og agent i FBI, er ute etter en mafiaboss i New Orleans, Tony Cardo. Han ber Dave bli politispion, og fremskaffe bevis for at Tony er involvert i omsetningen av narkotika. I New Orleans finner vi også Jimmie Lee Boggs.

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales. The Cormorants of Udröst is one of the stories he collected. It tells of a fisherman who found the mythical island of Udröst and befriended its strange and wonderfully generous inhabitants.

Fire helt nye julefortellinger og tre klassikere i denne nyinnspillingen fra Grieg Audio. Fortalt med varme og humor som gir den rette julestemningen for hele familien.

Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her own voice, but when she falls in love with an older, established author, she finds herself overwhelmed by his ideas and lifestyle. Trine, an outrageous performance artist, has recently and reluctantly become a mother, but is finding it increasingly difficult to balance the care of her child with her outsized ambitions. Linnea is an aspiring director scouting filming locations in Copenhagen, but her hopelessly smitten producer already knows that this movie will never be made.

Når kona drar på sin årlige venninnetur, nyter han livet som gressenkemann. Utover natten treffer han en bekjent på en av Oslos brune puber og de begynner å mimres sitt tvilsomme, men lukrative samarbeid som kunstforhandlere. Dagen etter dukker det opp en forslått kvinne i skogen utenfor huset hans.Litcast er utvalgte fortellinger på under en time.

Bjørn Erliksen lives a peaceful life on Norway’s west coast and has never considered himself anything but a farmer. But when Nazi Germany invades, and his country’s ill-equipped military collapses in less than two months, it falls on him and other ordinary Norwegians to fight back.

This story tells the gripping adventure of a Viking called Borghild, and a Norwegian forest cat called Whit Freya. They sail to Scotland, the Isle of Man, and then England.

The making of a writer Ruskin Bond's first full-fledged autobiographical book covers his formative years,' till the age of 21. The world of Anglo-India, with all its conflicting pulls, comes alive as he tells his story. His earliest memoirs are bitter-sweet, and relate to Jamnager where he lives till he is six. The happy hours spent in exploring the Ram Vilas Palace grounds and playing with his younger sister Ellen and the palace children are overshadowed by the acrimonious relationship between his parents.

Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on, we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night - while a sense of uneasiness grows.

In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.

I Cannery Row skildrer Steinbeck forholdene i den lille californiske byen Monterey. Mesteparten av romanens handling utspiller seg på gaten Cannery Row, som bl. a. huser byens store hermetikkfabrikk, bordelleier Doras ’etablissement’ og kjøpmann Lee Chongs butikk. Fortellingens hovedperson er den lure og manipulerende ungkaren Mack. Sammen med dagdrivervennene sine planlegger han et gilde for marinbiologen Doc, som de skylder en tjeneste. Snart er alle byens innbyggere involvert i planleggingen av gildet, som ikke går helt som planlagt.

“Mrs Dalloway sa at hun ville kjøpe blomstene selv.” Med denne senere så berømte setningen innledes romanen, som utspiller seg en sommerdag i London i juni 1923 hvor Clarissa Dalloway forbereder et middagsselskap. I løpet av dagen skjer det flere ting som fører til en rekke overveielser og assosiasjoner knyttet til tidligere begivenheter. Mannen hennes har, til hennes utilfredshet, blitt invitert til lunsj uten henne hos Lady Bruton, hvis animerte lunsjer er berømte i de høyere sosiale lag.

Selv om Hemingway er mest kjent for romanene sine, ser mange på novellene hans som det ypperste i forfatterskapet. Kilimanjaros sne og andre noveller inneholder verk som ikke ble tatt med i de tre tidligere novellesamlingene hans. De ble utgitt samlet for første gang i 1938 som del av antologien The Fifth Column and First Forty-Nine Stories. Novellene er alle sammen glimrende eksempler på Hemingways helt unike skrivestil, og blir fortsatt sett på som noen av hans beste verk.

Ivanhoe har akkurat kommet hjem fra et korstog der han kjempet side om side med den normanniske Richard Løvehjerte. Dette har gjort Ivanhoes saksiske far, Cedric, forbitret, og han har derfor gjort ham arveløs. I tillegg til å prøve å gjenvinne farens gunst, må Ivanhoe dyste om den vakre Lady Rowena, forsvare kongen sin og stille opp til duell for å redde den gode jøden Rebecca, som er anklaget for å være heks.

A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered—her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, of the Trondheim Police Department, still recovering from brain surgery, is called in to investigate.

Clara and Henrik are married and living in a beautiful inherited villa in Oslo. She is a single-mindedly ambitious child-rights activist at the Ministry of Justice. Having grown up in rural Western Norway, she is also an Oslo outsider. Henrik is a doctor from a well-to-do Oslo family. Though their marriage is under serious strain, they share a devotion to their twin sons and their work. Then a Pakistani Norwegian child is admitted to Henrik’s hospital and dies in his care. The boy had clearly been the victim of child abuse. Soon after, a related murder rocks the city.

Elizabeth did not plan to break up his marriage when she had an affair with her law school professor. But she did. 15 years later, she's still coming to terms with the consequences. Compelled to reveal the tragedy of her life to a nameless lover, Elizabeth finds herself forced to reconsider her definition of love, commitment, and responsibility - a process that finally releases her from the shackles of her past mistakes and shows her the way to her own happily ever after.

On a blazing hot summer’s day, holidaymakers at a guesthouse on a Norwegian island are shocked to discover a fellow guest has been found murdered out on a desolate plain. The nameless narrator, an author, was the last person to see the victim alive; shortly afterwards, he was disturbed by a noise like "a rattling of chains". A local tells him this is "the iron chariot", which is said to presage death. Drawn unwillingly into the investigation, the narrator is puzzled by an enigmatic detective’s apparent inaction, and troubled by unfolding events.

Fortellinger for tøysekopper og annet godtfolk er en samling med sju små, morsomme, eventyrlige og fantasifulle historier for barn og voksne. De sju fortellingene er: Hans Høytidelighet Hanen av Hønsegården, Påskeharen Petra som falt i hullet, Mads og det mugne gjørmemonsteret, Skogmusen, heksen og de tre ønskene, Pinnsvinet Pelle med de myke piggene, Ellen Enhjørnings første skoledag og Min mormor sier mjau.

Etter en ødeleggende husbrann vender, privatetterforskeren Britt Foss tilbake til hjembyen full av skyldfølelse, både for å begrave faren og ta vare på moren.