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SUMMARY:EVIL FLOWERS BY GUNNHILD ØYEHAUG
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club\, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. On July 11\, we’ll be discussing Evil Flowers by award-winning Norwegian writer Gunnhild Øyehaug (Present Tense Machine)\, who recently discussed the book with us in a virtual talk streaming here. \nIn Evil Flowers\, a precise but madcap collection of short stories now in translation by Kari Dickson\, Gunnhild Øyehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange\, startling brilliance of everyday life. A section of a woman’s brain slips into the toilet bowl\, removing her ability to remember or recognize types of birds — though she is an ornithologist. Medicinal leeches ingest information from fiberoptic cables\, and a new museum sinks into the ground. \n\n\nAcross 25 stories\, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again\, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that her every story is “a formal surprise\, smart and droll.” Inspired by Charles Baudelaire\, a dreamer and romantic in the era of realism\, Øyehaug revolts against the ordinary\, reaching instead for the wonder to be found in fantasy and absurdity. \nBrimming with wit\, ingenuity\, and irrepressible joy\, these stories mark another triumph from a dazzling international writer. \nREGISTER
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SUMMARY:MY MEN
DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 12 for a book talk with Norwegian author Victoria Kielland on My Men\, a fictional account of one broken woman’s descent into inescapable madness\, out on June 27 from Astra Publishing House! Kielland will discuss her novel\, which is based on the true story of Norwegian maid turned Midwestern farmwife Belle Gunness\, the first known female serial killer in American history\, with translator Damian Searls. \nAmong thousands of other Norwegian immigrants seeking freedom\, Brynhild Størset emigrated to the American Upper Midwest in the late 19th century\, changing her name and her life. As Bella\, later Belle Gunness\, she came in search of not only fortune and true faith but\, most of all\, love. In this literary reimagining of her harrowing true story\, Kielland’s Belle grows increasingly alienated\, ruthless\, and perversely compelling in her pursuit of the American Dream. Raw\, visceral\, and altogether hypnotic\, My Men is a brutal yet radically empathetic glimpse into the world of a woman consumed by desire. \n\n\nThis event will take place at Scandinavia House. Advance registration is recommended; sign up at the link above. \n“This fascinating\, off-kilter novel about a female serial killer is an unexpectedly thrilling read.”\n—Karl Ove Knausgård\, author of My Struggle and The Morning Star \n“Kielland’s dense\, lyrical novel offers both insight and opacity . . .  Despite the subject matter\, this novel is not your typical thriller. The language\, in Searls’ translation\, is dense\, poetic\, and deeply figurative.” —Kirkus Reviews
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SUMMARY:THE GUILTY
DESCRIPTION:This summer at Scandinavia House\, see the critically acclaimed Nordic films that inspired American remakes in the series “The Nordics Do It Better”! You’ve seen the Hollywood version — but did you know how good the original was?\n\n\n\n\nOn July 11\, see 2018 Danish crime thriller The Guilty /Den Skyldige (dir. Gustav Möller\, Denmark\, 2018)\, which was in 2021 was remade as the Netflix film The Guilty\, starring and produced by Jake Gyllenhaal. When police officer Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) is demoted to deskwork\, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. But that all changes when one night he receives an emergency call from a kidnapped woman — who states that she is currently being driven out of Copenhagen against her will — and he embarks on an increasingly hair-raising journey to probe the mystery by any means necessary. \n\n\nAs he uses others as his eyes and ears to bring the missing woman to safety\, a ticking clock and his own personal demons conspire against him\, and the search to find her and her assailant will take every bit of his intuition and skill. \nIn this innovative and unrelenting Danish thriller that uses a single location to great effect\,  director Gustav Möller expertly frames the increasingly messy proceedings against the clean Scandinavian sterility of the police department\, while Cedergren’s strong performance places the audience squarely in Holm’s tragically flawed yet well-intentioned mindspace. Shortlisted as the Danish submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards\, The Guilty was hailed as “a masterclass in wringing breathless tension from just a few key ingredients” (Wendy Ide\, Observer). \n\n\n\n \n\nPURCHASE TICKETS
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