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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 o... Read More about The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am (Norwegian Literature)

The Marquis de Sade is alive and well and living in Sweden--or perhaps author Nikanor Teratologen is the devil himself, sending the English-speaking world a Scandinavian squib to remind readers that such reassuring figures as vampires and serial killers are no more frightening than pixies or unicorn... Read More about Assisted Living (Swedish Literature)

"Originally published in Norwegian as Jo Fortere Jeg Gar, Jo Mindre Er Jeg by Forlaget Oktober A/S, 2009.... Read More about The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am (Norwegian Literature)

"It's normal to be evil," writes Lars Svendsen, in this latest contribution to contemporary philosophy; the problem is, we've lost the vocabulary to talk about it. Despite its overuse in movies, political speeches, and news reports, the word "evil" is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or el... Read More about Philosophy of Evil (Norwegian Literature)

"When Mondru's prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist's soul is a veritable party. . . . By God she's a great prose stylist full of character."--Politiken Danish Women Writers Series Stylistically provocative, Justine tells the story of a young female artist who... Read More about Justine (Danish Women Writers)

"Captivating and wild. . . . There is a vast, oceanic narrative power in J anes Nielsen's Faroese chronicle The Brahmadells." --Anders Juhl Rasmussen One of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, The Brahmadells is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular family--nicknamed... Read More about The Brahmadells