Winner of the Norwegian Critic’s Prize in 1975, the year that it was published.

“Some of the strongest and most committed writing in recent decades of Norwegian Literature.” Aftenposten

The first English translation of the Carriage Stone. The Carriage Stone explores the meeting of a struggling communist writer and a Lutheran minister as each of them confronts the death of a loved one. Both, in different ways begin to doubt their lives and their work. The development of their relationship is masterfully depicted, smoothly shifting between intimacy and distance.   

“A profound and sensitive novel.” Booklist

Sigbjørn Hølmebaak was born in southern Norway. After attending a business school, Hølmebakk became an employee of the State Directorate of Enemy Property. Hølmebakk's début in literature came in 1950 with the novel Don't Talk About the Fall(Ikke snakk om høsten). He wrote twelve further novels and was also a skillful dramatist. Hølmebakk was a realist, who wrote of existential questions with force and skillfully explored social backgrounds. He was also awarded Gyldendal's Endowment in 1956, and the Dobloug Prize in 1976.

To be published in April 2012.

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It is 1941. The Russians are closing in. When armed Czech partisans knock at her family's door one early morning in 1941, Lynette knows that she will be taken away, never to return. This haunting novel is told through the diary of 12-year-old Lynette who is growing up in a Europe ravaged by war, vividly portraying her sense of loss and the endless search for home. 

Reviews

The Bridge Over the River is a beautiful, poignant book filled with quiet wisdom and perceptiveness. I was sorry to reach the last page.

Suzy Ceulan Hughes -gwales.com

This atmospheric, sensual and impressionistic novel... chronicles a side of war seldom written by victors or the vanquished,

 The Western Mail

The first German publication of this book predated the wave of recent novels, memoirs and histories about the suffering and pain of the expulsion, which is currently a hot topic in Germany.

 Times Literary Supplement

From Barcelona to Sicily and back, Look me in the Eye is full of sun and sex, desire and doubt, fidelity and infidelity.

While in Barcelona translating a best-selling Italian book, Blanca identifies so much with the main character – a woman whose husband is unfaithful – that she begins to doubt her own husband. Her fears turn into obsession, and she is compelled to travel to Sicily to meet the book’s author .

Juana knows how to deal with harsh reality. She has no other choice.

 Growing up in the post-war Spain of the 1950s means a life of poverty, hunger, and gruelling work. Juana says goodbye to her family and to the village she has lived in all her life, and heads out alone to Barcelona to look for employment. For a time she finds a wage and a bed in the house of the devious and dishonest Madame Monterde, but when Juana discovers Monterde's shameful secret she is thrown out onto the street. Companionship comes in the unlikely form of Liberto, a disillusioned and home-bound watchmaker many years Juana's senior. The relationship brings some hope to Juana as she trudges on at the textiles factory, day after day, earning barely enough to eat. However, as a persecuted anarchist trapped into shady dealings with Madame Monterde, Liberto has his own problems...

 When love is not enough, and nothing in her life is sure, Juana can rely on person and one person alone to provide the strength she needs to survive. Herself.

The contributors to the anthology Shadow Plays are gathered together from Nova Scotia, Delhi, the English Midlands and two Welsh linguistic traditions.

Shadows – A deceitful interplay of the light and the dark, they appear to be darkest in the brightest of light and they leave you alone in the darkest hour. A cultural outlook – a symbolic depiction of the theme “After Dark” by these writers from all over the world.