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Author
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
2) The thirst
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbo's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters--a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for an enemy from his past.
3) Knife
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. England, 1852. William is a biologist and seed merchant, who sets out to build a new type of beehive--one that will give both...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
'My Struggle' is the provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel of Karl Ove Knausgaard that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears 'A la recherche du temps perdu' and 'Mein Kampf'-but it has also been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset. Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out!" When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail posing the same question, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat--Kat the adventurer, Kat who ran away to the South Pacific as soon as they graduated--has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with...
7) In the wake
Author
Publisher
Picador USA/St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Arvid Jansen comes to one morning, leaning against the door of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes. His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, and abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone."
Author
Series
My struggle volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition.
Physical Desc
592 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.
Author
Series
My struggle volume 4
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
Author
Series
My struggle volume 5
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Physical Desc
624 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published...Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel."--
11) My Struggle
Author
Series
My struggle volume 6
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Physical Desc
1156 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A family of four--mother, father, and two boys--move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that...
14) The son
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge.
15) Nemesis
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
16) The Bat
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia. Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl, who was working in a bar. Initially sidelined as an outsider, Harry becomes central to the Australian police investigation when they start to notice a number of unsolved rape and murder cases around the country....
17) The leopard
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
613 p. 1 map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their own blood. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. There is only one man who can help them, and he doesn't want to be found. Deeply traumatised by the snowman investigation, which threatened the lives of those...
18) The Redbreast
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins
19) Phantom
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The murder has been solved, but has justice been done? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He's been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back is already closed. There is no room for doubt: the young junkie was shot dead by a fellow addict. The police don't want him back.
20) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Blood on Snow Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother, and her son, Knut. But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential...
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