Strindberg's Miss Julie: A Play and Its Transpositions (Norvik Press Series a, No 5)

Jacobs, Barry

Törnqvist, Egil

Literature & Fiction

Norvik Press

Moment of Freedom (Series B: English Translations of Works of Scandinavian Literature)

Jens Bjørneboe

Contemporary

The Silence

Bjørneboe, Jens

Translation of a novel by one of Iceland's leading modern writers.

Gunnloth's Tale

Svava Jakobsdóttir

Short Stories

Hjalmar Söderberg

This volume presents for the first time the fascinating story of Knut Hamsun's reception abroad.

Knut Hamsun Abroad: International Reception

Peter Fjågesund

Parenting & Relationships

Today, change in our material lives is a constant. Many now living have seen the advent not only of the mobile phone and the Internet, but also of space exploration, vaccines and even indoor plumbing. This in contrast to the world you now enter in The Railroad, where the diminutive Matti and Liisa are aging in a corner of the world in which peasant life has remained unaltered for centuries. When the iron rails reach the forests of Eastern Finland, however, that solitude and constancy are forever altered. The Railroad (1884) was prose writer, poet, translator and journalist Juhani Aho's first major literary work. There is some disagreement as to whether he or Aleksis Kivi (best known for his 1870 novel Seven Brothers) should be named the first professional Finnish author. There is no doubt, however, that Aho's modern usage of the Finnish language and application of realistic style - although romantic elements also appear in The Railroad - place him as one of the progenitors of Finnish literature, which has been closely identified with realism ever since. In both his topics and his style we witness a critical stage in the cultural development of what is now one of the most advanced nations in the world.

The Railroad

Juhani, Aho

Literary

A collection of the most popular and well known stories by Soderberg, whose clear-sighted affection for Stockholm shines through each.

Söderberg, Hjalmar

Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers' college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith, Malin plunges into a depression and a paralysis of will. Oscillating between poetic prose, social realism, fragments of correspondence, and imagined dialogues between the forces of nature, Crisis telescopes Malin's distress out into metaphysical planes and back, as her mind stages struggles between black and white, Dionysian and Apollonian, and with an everyday existence that has become unbearably arduous. And then an intense infatuation with a classmate reorients everything.

Crisis (B)

Boye, Karin

Erotica

In 1946 Tallinn a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream-colored car gliding down the street. It is a Russian Pobeda, a car called Victory. The sympathetic driver invites the boy for a ride and enquires about his family. Soon the boy's father disappears. Ilmar Taska's debut novel captures the distrust and fear among Estonians living under Soviet occupation after World War II. The reader is transported to a world seen through the eyes of a young boy, where it is difficult to know who is right and who is wrong, be they occupiers, or occupied. Resistance fighters, exiles, informants and torturers all find themselves living in Stalin's long shadow.

Pobeda 1946: A Car Called Victory

Taska, Ilmar

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