NO 8
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul
Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken
‘A brilliantly drawn character.’ TLS
NO 9
Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe
Translated from the Swiss German by Jamie Bulloch
‘Delicate and moving.’ INDEPENDENT
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TURNING POINT: REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS
NO 10
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke
Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
‘An extraordinary book.’ STANDPOINT
NO 11
Mr Darwin’s Gardener by Kristina Carlson
Translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah
‘Something miraculous.’ GUARDIAN
NO 12
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
Translated from the Polish by Philip Boehm
‘A remarkable find.’ SUNDAY TIMES
COMING-OF-AGE: TOWARDS IDENTITY
NO 13
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
‘Immense poetic power.’ GUARDIAN
NO 14
The Blue Room by Hanne Ørstavik
Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin
‘Shrewd and psychologically adroit.’ LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
NO 15
Under the Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda
Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
‘It is excellent.’ SUNDAY TIMES
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NEW IN 2015
CHANCE ENCOUNTER: MEETING THE OTHER
NO 16
White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen
Translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
NO 17
Reader for Hire by Raymond Jean
Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
‘A book that will make you want to read more books.’ COSMOPOLITAN
NO 18
The Looking-Glass Sisters by Gøhril Gabrielsen
Translated from the Norwegian by John Irons
‘Raw and dark and wonderfully different from anything else.’ DAG OG TID
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About the Author and Translator
AUTHOR
Gøhril Gabrielsen, born in 1961, grew up in Finnmark, the northernmost county in Norway, and currently lives in Oslo. She won Aschehoug’s First Book Award for her 2006 novel Unevnelige hendelser (Unspeakable Events), and was the recipient of the 2010 Tanum Scholarship for Women. Since the publication of her debut novel she has brought out two further books to great acclaim in her native Norway, Svimlende muligheter, ingen frykt (The Looking-Glass Sisters) and Skadedyr (Vermin). Her fourth novel is due out in 2015.
TRANSLATOR
John Irons studied modern and medieval languages at Cambridge before doing research within the field of poetic imagery. Since the mid 1980s he has translated poetry, fiction and non-fiction from the Scandinavian languages and was awarded the NORLA translation prize for non-fiction in 2007.
Copyright
First published in English in 2015 by
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This ebook edition first published in 2015.
First published under the original Norwegian language title Svimlende muligheter, ingen frykt, H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) AS © 2008
This translation © John Irons, 2015
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA.
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