The World of Books

Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved is a wonderful novel, beautifully written, but also a very demanding book to read, intellectually as well as emotionally.
Siri Hustvedt is an American, but with Norwegian parents. She lives in New York, and is married to, and have a daughter with, the author Paul Auster. She has a Ph.D. in [...]

Bel Canto is a wonderful book on the forming of bonds between people and the transformation of character with circumstance, by a great American writer, Ann Patchett.
Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963 and raised in Nashville. In 1990, she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. It was named a New [...]

(Norwegian title: Svarte sekunder.)
In 2002 Karin Fossum published her sixth Sejer novel in Norwegian. This book, Black Seconds, is now released in English. So far Karin Fossum’s books have been extremely well received. And with Black Seconds, which is among her best books - well written, highly exciting, and with all the depth one expects from [...]

Is this yet another tale of a wild chase after a treasure, or what is it? It is, and yet it most certainly is not! This fable, about an Andalusian shepherd boy, with its seemingly trivial story line, has sold more than 65 million copies world wide. And, even though The Alchemist was first published in Brazil as recently as [...]