Frode Grytten

roman

Bikubesong

Alison McCullough

How would you spend your last day? And whom would you spend it with?

Ferryman Nils Vik chooses to head out onto the fjord, as he has for many years. Today, the 18th of November, his trip is different. As his trusty boat reaches the sea, a lifetime of passengers join him from beyond the grave, among them his rescue dog, the American photographer he thought of as his friend and young Jon Anderson, whose funeral Nils attended. But Nils is truly waiting for just one passenger: his beloved wife Marta, whose absence has marked each day since her passing. Approaching the end of his journey, his expectation grows - will he be reunited with her too?

The Ferryman and His Wife

Den dagen Nils Vik døde

Brenn huset ned

Pjesma košnice

John Olav Nilsen

skodespel

Sånne som oss

Dublin er pop, preik og poesi. Dublin er latter, spøk og sorg. Den irske hovudstaden har også vore viktig for forfattaren Frode Grytten. I denne boka skriv Grytten fram sitt eige Dublin. Frode Grytten (f 1960) var tidlegare journalist i Bergens Tidende og er no forfattar på heiltid, busett i Bergen.

Dublin

* An atmospheric and suspensefulmystery, which is being likened to SNOW FALLING ONCEDARS

The Shadow in the River

noveller

Menn som ingen treng

Olga Tokarczuk

Jean Sprackland

Gyrdir Eliasson

Micheal O Conghaile

Danielle Picard

Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu 

Ingo Schulze

Roman Simic

Mirja Unge

What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative? Pressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up, we’d be hard pushed to say anything positive: closed-minded; petty; provincial; parochial. On a broad European canvas, however, the rich traditions of short story writing challenge these preconceptions. The stories collected here are neither narrow-minded nor petty, nor do the minds of their protagonists contract to fit their environment. In Germany, a house-husband is slowly sent over the edge by his over-achieving neighbours. In the town of Odda in Norway, a middle-aged Morrissey fan has a matter of hours to find a girlfriend so his ailing mother can die in peace. It’s the small gestures – a white lie, the turning of a blind eye, a small kindness or a secret kept – that allow the characters of these communities to survive, to breathe easily within the seemingly tight strictures life there can impose. It’s how we do things round here...

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