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Original title: Et norsk hus Cappelen Damm AS, 2014. Published in agreement with Cappelen Damm.
This translation Charlotte Barslund 2017.
The translators moral right to be identified as the translator of the work has been asserted.
Norvik Press Series B: English Translations of Scandinavian Literature, no. 72
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN: 978-1-909408-40-1
Norvik Press
Department of Scandinavian Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
Website: www.norvikpress.com
E-mail address: [email protected]
Managing editors: Elettra Carbone, Sarah Death, Janet Garton,
C. Claire Thomson.
Layout and cover design: Essi Viitanen
Cover image: Hesteblomster, Frida Hansen, 1900, detail. Photo: Jensen, Stina Aadland / Stiftelsen Kulturkvartalet
Printed in the UK by Lightning Source UK Ltd
This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA.
This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PENs PEN Translates! programme, supported by Arts Council England. English PEN exists to promote literature and our understanding of it, to uphold writers freedoms around the world, to campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and to promote the friendly cooperation of writers and the free exchange of ideas. www.englishpen.org
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