The Mark (Merking) by Fríða Ísberg (2021)
admin The novel is a story set in a slightly futuristic, dystopian version of Reykjavík, where customer service is predominantly handled by holograms, and a comprehensive virtual assistant named Zoé has…
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People of the House by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2024)
The story starts with Raya’s family disagreeing about her marriage to Bakari Abba, who ends up being controlling. She has a son named Karim but leaves her husband and returns…
The Third Kingdom (Det tredje riket) by Karl Ove Knausgård (2022)
Karl Ove Knausgård permits the characters to reveal themselves through comprehensive descriptions. He maintains the belief that we will ultimately grasp and possibly gain insight from them. Whether the characters…
Ulvene fra evighetens skog (The Wolves of Eternity) by Karl Ove Knausgård (2021)
This is the second installment in Knausgård’s trilogy, following “The Morning Star,” published in 2020. Knausgård has been exceptionally productive, completing two substantial books in less than two years. However,…
A Shining by Jon Fosse (2022)
A man, feeling bored, goes for a drive without a specific destination. He ends up in a forest at the end of a path, and his car gets stuck in…
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård (2020)
In this book, Karl Ove Knausgaard shifts away from his usual self-focused narrative and delves into the lives of nine different characters: Arne, Kathrine, Emil, Iselin, Solveig, Jostein, Turid, Egil,…
A New Name by Jon Fosse (Septology 6-7)
Volume VI Two days before Christmas Eve, asle takes down the St Andrew’s Cross painting and contemplates an upcoming visit from asleik for lutefisk. He recalls the first meeting of…
I is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology 3-5)
Volume III In the morning, the narrator lies in bed, hesitant to get up. He sees the young Asle on a swing outside his house, with his mother confronting him…
End of Story by A. J. Finn (2024)
The setting is San Francisco, the present day. Nicky Hunter is a 30-something crime historian and lecturer, well-established in her field. She had struck up a correspondence with the famous…
The Other Name (Septology 1-2)
by Jon Fosse Volume 1 The first-person narrator, ASLE, gazes at a painting he just completed. It features two intersecting diagonal lines, one purple and one brown, with blended colors…