Books by Knut Faldbakken and Complete Book Reviews
Knut Faldbakken, Author Peter Owen Publishers $31.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0911-0
Post-apocalyptic literary fiction has gone somewhat out of fashion in recent years but, then, Faldbakken's grim, effective sequel to Twilight Country (published in the U.S. in 1993) was written in 1976 and posits an unusual kind of disaster scenario:
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Knut Faldbakken, Author Peter Owen Publishers $30.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0710-9
First published in Norway in 1971, this engaging novel (Faldbakken's fourth) varies the ``Sleeping Beauty'' fairy tale into the realm of serious psychological fiction. Maude, a 47-year-old virgin, is in love with Mr. Eldmann, a quiet, unassuming...
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Knut Faldbakken, Author, Joan Tate, Translator Peter Owen Publishers $34.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-7206-0885-4
A dark, end-of-the-millennium vision permeates this novel by Norwegian author Faldbakken ( Insect Summer ). Fleeing from the collapsing economic, social and legal systems of Sweetwater, a dystopian city in an unnamed country, former architect Allan...
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Knut Faldbakken, Author, Sverre Lyngstad, Translator University of Nebraska Press $25 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1974-8
This masterfully crafted Norwegian novel studies how the insidious power of social roles can corrupt relations between men and women. In three confessional narratives by men parading as ""Thief,'' ``Dog'' and ``Prisoner,'' Faldbakken dramatizes the...
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