When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Erika Fatland was only eight years old, living with her family in the small town of Ølen in Norway. She did not know what was hap
What do Norway and North-Korea have in common? The answer is the Russian border. Between Erika Fatland’s egalitarian homeland and the hermetically sealed northeast Asian dictator
The five ‘stans’ portrayed by Erika Fatland – Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – are, it’s probably fair to say, scarcely more familiar to
The ascent of Thomas Enger – both in terms of critical approbation and sales – has been swift, but it is no more than the talented Enger deserves. With his first novel to appea
In recent years Henning Juul has been to hell but not back. The crime journalist has nearly died in a fire deliberately started in his own apartment. His six-year-old son Jonas los
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