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Features thirty stories that range from early works such as The Tinderbox and The Emperor's New Clothes through masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling, to later tales such as The Ice maiden and The Wood Nymph.
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Kristin Lavransdatter is a story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, set against a richly detailed historical backdrop of fourteenth-century Norway. The Cross (1922) finds Kristin returning with her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jorundgaard. As the boys grow ...older, Kristin is increasingly worried about their prospects, and she and Erlend become estranged. The most devastating and emotional volume in the trilogy, The Cross chronicles the trials and losses Kristin must bear. Tiina Nunnally's exquisite rendering of this unforgettable novel, both more faithful to the beauty of the original Norwegian and more readable than the existing translation, is the first new English translation of Undset's masterpiece. Read more
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It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pil...ls and institutionalisation. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself lead to enlightenment? Brief, intense and haunting, Ditlevsen's novel recreates the experience of madness from the inside, with all the vividness of lived experience. Read more
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Swedish sisters Astrid, Lena, and Sandra have struggled to get along since childhood, but when Lena is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, they are each thrown into crisis together. Astrid's well-ordered, predictable world is shaken by the return of her ex-boyfriend Michael, an Americ...an who abandoned her-and their infant son-years earlier. While Astrid Read more
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Originally published by Oslo: Aschehoug, 1977 entitled Fru Marta Oulie: a novel of betrayal.
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Previously published as De fiorsvunna by Bonnier in 2015 in Sweden. Translated from Swedish by Tiina Nunnally. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2016 --Title page verso.
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Steeped in the rich history of Lake Superior s rugged North Shore, this follow-up to the Riverton Prize winning The Land of Dreams pursues two tales through a bleak and beautiful landscape haunted by the lives and dreams of its Scandinavian immigrants and Native Americans. Lance ...Hansen finds himself equally haunted by the complex mysteries that continue to unravel around him. Read more
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Philip Teir weaves a finely-tuned story about life choices and lies, about childhood and adulthood
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It's been a long, dark time since a gruesome discovery drew U.S. Forest Service ranger Lance Hansen into a murder investigation that is now approaching a resolution although not to his satisfaction. In fact, the mysteries have been multiplying and getting uncomfortably close to h...ome. On the run after a hunting expedition with his brother, Andy, went awry, Lance is haunted by visions of Swamper Caribou, the Ojibwe medicine man whose death a century earlier remains unexplained. Willy Dupree, Lance's former father-in-law, has the ability to interpret dreams and what he reveals may be key to understanding both deaths, past and present. Reluctantly taking on the role of detective, Lance uncovers troubling connections and grim secrets that will shake him to his very core.In the final installment of his award-winning Minnesota Trilogy, Norwegian crime writer Vidar Sundstol s affinity for the northern world of Lake Superior is on full display as Lance s search takes him from the wilds of the Boundary Waters to outposts steeped in voyageur history and Ojibwe culture, from the streets of the Twin Cities to the gritty port of Duluth, to the sleepy tourist towns that dot the North Shore and as the mysteries of love and nature, history and culture, and family and ancestry merge in a powerful conclusion. Read more
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** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **'A fine book. Deserves to be read widely' James Rebanks, author of A Shepherd's LifeIn the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Drawing on science, poetry, history, ecology and mythology, Shark ...Drunk is the story of their quixotic quest. Read more
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