crime fiction - Cappelen Damm

▶FictionNovelsSold to20countries!Roy JacobsenChild WonderVidunderbarnIt all begins when a mysterious, little half-sister arrives.Her name is Linda. She carries a blue suitcase with amanual. A manual for Linda. Because Linda is someonequite special.It is the year of the Berlin Wall, of President Kennedy andJurij Gagarin. Finn lives with his mother in a tiny workingclass apartment in Oslo. Life is all about a TV, playingwith his best friend Freddy, but also about beating upboys in the neighborhood and getting beaten up yourself.This small family’s everyday life is modest and stubbornlysocial-democratic. But then Linda arrives, and suddenlyFinn detects signs of change and secrets about his mother. The foundation of his entireexistence is shaking. This powerful depiction of a childhood shows how wonderful and howdangerous it is to be a child.Sold 150,000 copies in Norway and winner of The Booksellers’ Prize.Rights sold to: Azerbaijan (Qanun), Bulgaria (Perseus), Czech Republic (Pistorius & Olšanská),Denmark (Rosinante), Egypt (Al-Arabi), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), The Faeroe Islands (Nylendi),Finland (Like), France (Gallimard), Germany (Osburg Verlag), Hungary (Scolar), Israel (Keter),Italy (Bompiani), Makedonia (Shkupi), The Netherlands (Querido), Poland (SIW Znak), Russia(Corpus), Serbia (Carobna), Spain (Grijalbo Mondadori), Sweden (Norstedts), UK (MacLehose Press)and USA (Graywolf).▶ BACKLISTShortlistedfor theIMPACAwardThe Conquerors (Seierherrene), 1991.Rights sold to: denmark, lithuania and sweden.22Boundaries (Grenser), 1999.Rights sold to: Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden.The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles (Hoggerne), 2005.Rights sold to: Croatia , Czech Republic, Denmark, Faeroe Islands, France, Germany, Macedonia, TheNetherlands, Poland , Russia, Serbia, Sweden and UK.