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Adam's Diary
A lover afraid of commitment, a former sweetheart, and an ex-husband each describe their relationship with a divorced waitress
Twilight Country
Knut Faldbakken is one of Norway's leading contemporary writers, and his novels have been published in fourteen countries. Twilight Country is the stark portrayal of a civilization in decline, a civilization with unnerving similarities to our own. When life in the stagnant and polluted city of Sweetwater becomes unbearable, its citizens desert it one by one to take refuge on the Dump, the repository of the city's unwanted surplus. Here they find freedom from the city's bureaucratic tyranny and filth as well as the material goods they depend on for survival. Twilight Country depicts the struggles of individuals who learn to cooperate, creating a new society from the detritus of the old.
Insect Summer
This brilliantly conceived recreation of adolescence is as riveting as it is authentic. The tale of a young boy discovering primal urges amidst a heatwave was a best-seller in Scandinavia, and has been made into a film and serialized for radio.
Sweetwater
A policeman is kidnapped by a gang of urban outlaws and brainwashed into joining their cause. The setting of this tale, written by a Norwegian, is a city torn by urban riots in an unnamed country. By the author of Twilight Country.
Adam's Diary
Adam’s Diary, set in Oslo and by one of Norway’s leading writers, is the compelling story of lovers who find themselves the victims of social roles and sexual stereotypes. Comprising the narratives of three men who love, fear, and hate the same woman, Adam’s Diary is a gripping psychological novel with disturbing overtones.
A History of Norwegian Literature
Volume 2.
The Waiter
“As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is…one of the most purely entertaining novels I’ve read in years. This book is a meal you won’t want to finish.” —J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest. The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D’ likes to say—in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jack...
The Sleeping Prince
The Sleeping Prince is an imaginative tour de force about a frustrated, middle-aged spinster and her fantasy lover.
