"Morgenstjernen" er en forbløffende, ambisiøs og rik roman med et omfattende persongalleri og en handling som spenner fra det hverdagslig gjenkjennelige til de store kosmiske sammenhengene.Handlingen utspiller seg noen dager sent i august. Litteraturprofessoren Arne og kunstneren Tove er sammen med sine barn på feriestedet på Sørlandet. Deres venn, rikmannssønnen Egil, befinner seg på en hytte i nær-heten. Presten Kathrine er på vei hjem fra et seminar, barnehageassistenten Emil er på øving med bandet sitt, journalisten Jostein er ute på byen, kona hans Turid som er hjelpepleier har nattevakt. Over dem og alle andre dukker det plutselig opp en enorm stjerne på himmelen. Ingen, selv ikke astronomene, vet sikkert hva slags fenomen det er. Er det en stjerne som brenner ut? Hvorfor har da ingen sett den før? Eller er det en helt ny stjerne? Langsomt legger nyhetens interesse seg, og livet går videre, men ikke helt som før, for uvanlige fenomener begynner å inntreffe i utkanten av menneskenes tilværelse."Morgenstjernen" er en roman om det vi ikke forstår, om det store dramaet sett gjennom det lille livets begrensede linse. Men først og fremst er det en roman om hva som skjer når de mørke kreftene i verden settes fri.

A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night - while a sense of uneasiness grows. Love illustrates how language builds its own reality, and thus how mother and son can live in completely separate worlds. This distance is found not only between human beings, but also within each individual. This novel shows how such distance may have fatal consequences.

A new novel from August-Prize winning Lena Andersson, author of Wilful Disregard.When Ester Nillson meets actor Olof Sten, she quickly recognises that they have an extraordinary connection, and falls madly in love. Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless start to meet regularly and begin to conduct a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists that he doesn't plan to leave his wife, but he doesn't seem to object to this new situation either. And so, as their relationship continues over years, over repeated summers of distance, and winters of heated meetings in bars, Ester Nilsson realizes she has become a mistress.Cutting, often cruel, and written with razor-sharp humour, Lena Andersson explores the role of the lover in our culture through the unabating Ester Nilsson. Impeccably observed, clever and true, Ester is your brilliant friend and you are her confidant.

Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The more straightlaced critics condemned the book, but readers saw a novel that reflected the way that they spoke, thought, and felt.Turkish Delight opens with a screed: a sculptor in his studio, raging against the love he lost and describing, in gory detail, the state of his life since she left him. Our narrator alternates between the story of his relationship with Olga—its passion and affection, but also its obsessiveness and abuse—and the dark days that followed, as he attempts to recapture what they had when they lived together, “happy as beasts.” The two only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic decline into cancer—the chemo having taken her hair and rotted her teeth, she will only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside.In a new translation by Sam Garrett (Herman Koch’s The Dinner), readers get a sense of Wolkers’s revolutionary style and musical prose, Turkish Delight’s particular balance of naked impulse and profound longing.

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