Alberta and Jacob

Author	Edna O'Brien
ISBN	0140021086

In one interview Edna said

I was reading van Gogh’s letters. My God! I’m surprised he cut off only one ear

Not relevant at all, but it is funny.

On to the book. So, in 1962, one year before Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique kicked off the 2nd wave of feminism, and one year before...

Author	Jodi Kantor
ISBN	0525560343

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement

For many years, reporters...

Author	Sigrid Undset
ISBN	0141180412

Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicles the courtship of a headstrong and passionate young woman and a dangerously charming and impetuous man. Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day...

Author	Ryszard Kapuściński
ISBN	0679738010

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled...

Author	Henry Green
ISBN	1564782654

Blinded in an accident on his way home from boarding school, John Haye must reevaluate his life and the possibilities for his future. His stepmother—worried that, blind and dependent, he'll spend his life with her—wants to marry him off to anyone who will take him, provided she's of the "right"...

Author	Kjell Askildsen
ISBN	8203112609

Inneholder tre av forfatterens noveller: Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten handler om Thomas og inneholder en rekke små kapitler som forteller om den gamle mannens oppsummering av livet. Et stort øde landskap handler om frihetens muligheter og betingelser. Hundene i Tessaloniki:...

Author	Dag Solstad
ISBN	1555974465

An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations

In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...