Ruth Lillegraven

Family secrets, revenge, and righteous fury collide in an international bestselling novel of psychological suspense and intrigue. Clara and Henrik are married and living in a beautiful inherited villa in Oslo. She is a single-mindedly ambitious child-rights activist at the Ministry of Justice. Having grown up in rural Western Norway, she is also an Oslo outsider. Henrik is a doctor from a well-to-do Oslo family. Though their marriage is under serious strain, they share a devotion to their twin sons and their work. Outwardly, they're a successful couple both dedicated to saving lives. Then a Pakistani Norwegian child is admitted to Henrik's hospital and dies in his care. The boy had clearly been the victim of child abuse. Soon after, a related murder rocks the city. It won't be the last. The events unearth years of trauma, secrets, and buried resentments at the heart of Clara and Henrik's fragile marriage. Little by little, in the wake of these shattering crimes, the veneer of normalcy begins to fall away. But even then, nothing is as it appears.

A Novel

Everything Is Mine

Av mitt blod

De la poesía a la novela negra, el cambio de rumbo de Ruth Lillegraven. El majestuoso paisaje noruego ofrece una puesta en escena hermosa y escalofriante con el eco de Patricia Highsmith y Daphne du Maurier. Clara y Haavard han logrado todo aquello con lo que siempre habían soñado. Pero, en realidad, su matrimonio no es tan idílico como parece. Haavard tiene una aventura y Clara esconde un oscuro secreto sobre su pasado. ¿Cómo puede Clara salvar su carrera y a su familia sin revelar secretos que nadie debe saber?

En El Fiordo Profundo

I denne diktsamling møter ein ulike skapningar som skogen rommar. Dikta får ein til å tenkje over kven ein sjølv er i møte med naturen, og kven dei vi møter i skogen eigentleg er. Dikta følgjer eit barns undrande blikk på det som lever og hender i naturen rundt oss, som til dømes kva som skjer når ein følgjer ein kviskrande sti inn i skogen den grøne, korleis ei bjørk kan likne ei jente som prøver å riste vatn ut av håret eller om elgen som flyt i det botnlause tjernet vil søkke heilt ned til Kina. Dikt for småskole-/mellomtrinnet. Omtalen er utarbeidd av BS.

dikt for barn

Skogen den grøne

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Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his father--his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe, and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts and waves can still be ours. But Endre is strange, he keeps to himself, unlike his brothers who are merry and full of joy. He wants to live in the farm without longing to leave, but he is struggling. Then he meets Abelone--"the bearer of light." Tall and thin, always sitting with her books, sharper than all she went to school with, she is about to be a teacher. They appear to come from different worlds--one from the ancient, traditional, natural world; the other from the forward-looking world of modernity, of breaking away, and of renewal. But there is love--great and immediate. With new ideas and new languages, Abelone opens up the world of Endre--whose name means "change." A novel written in lyrical verse, Ruth Lillegraven's Sickle is an unforgettable evocation of longing and loss, of dreams and reality, and the importance of language itself.

Sickle

Møt Clara og Haavard, et vellykket ektepar i en arvet villa på Oslo Vest. Han er lege fra en gammel Oslo-familie. Hun er den ambisiøse outsideren fra Vestlandet som har fått toppjobb i Justisdepartementet. Nå rystes Oslo av to drap. Begge ofrene har innvandrerbakgrunn. Konsekvensene i et komplisert flerkulturelt samfunn er uoversiktlige. Etter hvert når saken helt til justisministerens bord, samtidig som den får store konsekvenser for Haavard og Clara og truer familiefreden. Men dette er bare begynnelsen. "Alt er mitt" er en psykologisk thriller der ingenting er som vi tror. Boken veksler elegant mellom fortid og nåtid, mellom intriger i maktens korridorer og i et moderne samliv, mellom skildringer av Oslo og Vestlandet. En overraskende, velskrevet og medrivende krim, inspirert av bøker som "Flink pike" av Gillian Flynn og "Piken på toget" av Paula Hawkins.

Alt er mitt

Clara and Henrik are married and living in a beautiful inherited villa in Oslo. She is a single-mindedly ambitious child-rights activist at the Ministry of Justice. Having grown up in rural Western Norway, she is also an Oslo outsider. Henrik is a doctor from a well-to-do Oslo family. Though their marriage is under serious strain, they share a devotion to their twin sons and their work. Outwardly, they're a successful couple both dedicated to saving lives. Then a Pakistani Norwegian child is admitted to Henrik's hospital and dies in his care. The boy had clearly been the victim of child abuse. Soon after, a related murder rocks the city. It won't be the last. The events unearth years of trauma, secrets and buried resentments at the heart of Clara and Henrik's fragile marriage. Little by little, in the wake of these shattering crimes, the veneer of normalcy begins to fall away. But even then, nothing is as it appears.

Everything is Mine

Betrayal, secrets, revenge, and murder: they're in the blood in a provocative novel of psychological suspense by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Everything Is Mine. As Norway's newly appointed minister of justice, child's rights advocate Clara Lofthus has a chance to accomplish something meaningful on behalf of the most vulnerable members of society. It couldn't be more personal. A single mother, she's fiercely protective of her twin sons, Andreas and Nikolai. She's also still haunted by her own traumatic childhood--and the lengths to which she was willing to go to pursue her own brand of vigilante justice. How far? No one ever needs to know. And this is just one of Clara's secrets. Then one day, Clara comes home from work to make a terrifying discovery: her sons have been kidnapped. Clara's search leads to her hometown in western Norway, where she learns that her mother has been released from the mental hospital she has been living at for the past thirty years. Hot on Clara's heels is a local reporter, who is every bit as relentless as she is. He's determined to disrupt Clara's life even further and will not rest until he exposes the truth about her past. As the fate of her sons hangs in the balance, the demons of Clara's past are flushed out of hiding, threatening with a vengeance to come home to roost.

Blood Ties

Fiordo profondo

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