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Kjell
Askildsen
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Everything Like Before
- stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
Per Olov
Enquist
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The March of the Musicians
- a novel about labour unrest in Sweden's bleak north
Peter
Høeg
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
- an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
Ida
Jessen
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A Change of Time
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- facing widowhood in a Danish country town
Hans Olav
Lahlum
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K2 and Patricia
The Human Flies; Satellite People
Torgny
Lindgren
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Bathsheba
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
Cecilia
Lindqvist
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China, Empire of the Written Symbol
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- Chinese history and culture through written characters
Hanne
Ørstavik
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The Pastor
- finding herself in far-northern Norway
Cora
Sandel
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Alberta and Jacob
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- coming of age in a small town in northern Norway
Maj
Sjöwall
, Per
Wahlöö
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The Story of a Crime: the Martin Beck series
- the classic Swedish police procedurals
Richard
Swartz
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A House In Istria
- obsessions talking past one another
Sigrid
Undset
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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- a family saga set in medieval Norway
Tarjei
Vesaas
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The Hills Reply
- prose poetry, coming of age in Norwegian landscapes
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