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A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is new and full of surprises, even though dangers lurk behind every corner; a car out of control, disease ever-present in the air, the unforgiving speed of time. She tells of the times before th... Read More about The Child

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)

"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)

When Kjersti A. Skomsvold was seventeen years old and about to start engineering studies at college, she found herself almost unable to move. "Laid out like a relic" in a nursing home, she listens to an old woman dying, watches her boyfriend drift away, and makes compendious lists of her worries (th... Read More about Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)