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The District Governor's Daughters
"Considered the first Norwegian feminist novel - timeless in its evocation of real human emotions and the dilemmas they present."--Publishers Weekly. "A historical milestone in the development of Norwegian feminism, the novel was also a significant i
Moment of Freedom
The first novel in the acclaimed "History of Bestiality" trilogy. Living high in the Alps in a German principality, our narrator tells us he's dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of Justice and acting as a daily witness to injustice masquerading as a court of law. One day he notices that the judge is much too engrossed in looking at pornographic photographs showing various other pillars of the town engaged in a variety of sexual activities with minors. The incident propels him on a mental journey back through his life: black-humor fantasies and suicidal drinking binges; the Roman catacombs, warm summer nights in Brooklyn; brothels in Stockholm, his childhood in Norway, and wanderings in Germany. But aside from court records he has been keeping his own long and detailed account of man's cruelty to man in a massive twelve-volume study he calls his History of Bestiality. --
THE GENERAL'S RING
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Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness
In 'Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness' by Selma Lagerlöf, the reader is transported to a world of moral dilemmas and spiritual journeys, all wrapped in rich and poetic prose. The book delves into themes of redemption, forgiveness, and the complexities of human nature, presented in Lagerlöf's signature lyrical style. Set against a backdrop of rural Sweden, the novel captures the essence of Scandinavian literature with its vivid descriptions and deep emotional resonance. Lagerlöf's use of folklore and symbolism adds an extra layer of depth to the narrative, making it a captivating read for lovers of literary fiction. Selma Lagerlöf, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, d...
Pobeda 1946
Ilmar Taska's debut novel captures the distrust and fear among Estonians living under Soviet occupation after World War II. The reader is transported to a world seen through the eyes of a young boy, where it is difficult to know who is right and who is wrong, be they occupiers or occupied.
Penwoman
During the early 20th century, a female journalist tries to remain independent in her marriage as she joins the movement for women's rights.
A Fighting Pig's Too Tough to Eat
The book contains her autobiographical meditation, "A Fighting Pig's Too Tough to Eat", and a selection of essays from the past 20 years, showing her development from social rebel to iconoclast and visionary.
Centring on the Peripheries
How do the "debatable lands" of Scandinavia and Scotland write their relations with their national centers, and with each other? How have post-colonialism and post nationalism made themselves felt in the literature of the cultural patchwork of Northern Europe? These sixteen essays trace ways to tell the stories of connections, boundaries, and localities that might go undetected by historians and artists. The literatures of the islands, borderlands, and landscapes of the North and Baltic Seas are set in dialogue with contemporary literary and socio-political approaches to the study of local, national and global cultural constellations, disrupting conventional cartographies that paint the margins as passive victims of geography or economics.
A Living Soul
Ypsilon is a human being reduced to the most basic essentials, a naked one-eyed brain floating in an aquarium of nutrious liquid. Through his consciousness we observe his obstinate struggles to maintain his freedom of action in this utterly dependent situation - to assert the right to express his anger, to fall in love, to run away - whilst it slowly dawns on him that he is a part of a wide-ranging scientific experiment. In this fantasy about a society which is scientifically only slightly more advanced than our own, the Swedish novelist P C Jersild explores the resilience of the human spirit set against the threatening Big Brother of technological progress. Like most of his other novels, it paints no rosy picture of the future of mankind, yet it celebrates the defiance which cannot be eradicated as long as the mind itself remains intact.
