Norvec

Mathea Martinsen has never been good at dealing with other people. After a lifetime, her only real accomplishment is her longevity: everyone she reads about in the obituaries has died younger than she is now. Afraid that her life will be over before anyone knows that she lived, Mathea digs out her old wedding dress, bakes some sweet cakes, and heads out into the world—to make her mark. She buries a time capsule out in the yard. (It gets dug up to make room for a flagpole.) She wears her late husband’s watch and hopes people will ask her for the time. (They never do.) Is it really possible for a woman to disappear so completely that the world won’t notice her passing? The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am is a macabre twist on the notion that life “must be lived to the fullest.”

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas and his father are driving from Norway to Greece in search of Hans Thomas' mother, who left them many years before. Along the way, the boy receives a mysterious miniature book - the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards has come to life. But what does the sailor's journey have to do with that of Hans Thomas? And what can both their journeys tell us about our own quest to understand life?

Jeg bærer på håpet, rundt omkring i leiligheten, men noen ganger ute på fortauet også, jeg bærer det som et barn i en bærepose, og støtt åpner jeg posen, løfter barnet ut, studerer det mens jeg i redsel mest har lyst til å stikke øynene ut på meg selv, før jeg legger barnet ned i posen igjen, hvor det kryper sammen i fosterstilling og sovner. Dette er en usedvanlig kjærlighetshistorie om en kvinne, to menn og et barn. K. er lungesyk og arbeider som matematikklærer. Den ene kjærligheten i hennes liv er Ferdinand, som har begått selvmord, men som stadig dukker opp og snakker til henne. Den andre kjærligheten er iren Samuel, som skriver romaner og drømmer om å bedra sitt eget cricketlag. Og så gir K. liv til det lille barnet Maeve. 33 er en mirakuløs roman om øyeblikkene hvor alt blir helt annerledes. Hvordan våge å falle når man ikke vet om noen er der for å ta imot? http://oktober.no/Boeker/Skjoennlitte...

Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognize the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months. This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Vigdis Hjorth's trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style.