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july 02, 2015 - Iperborea

Kaj Munk, Dag Solstad and Kari Hotakainen published in Italy by Iperborea

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The Word by Kaj Munk
Out for the first time in the Italian text of the great Danish playwright and journalist Kaj Munk, who flashed Carl Dreyer in Copenhagen in 1932 and which was the masterpiece Ordet - The word, winner of the Golden Lion and Golden Globe Best Foreign Film. Kaj Munk, author and pastor of the Danish church, a man of tender feelings but with vigorous faith in the biblical Word, able to be "stronger than death", is considered a martyr of the Danish resistance and was kidnapped and murdered by the Nazi occupiers for preaching a Church subservient to power and a Christianity in opposition to enemy forces of freedom…


The Night of Professor Andersen by Dag Solstad
Alone in his apartment, Professor Andersen, fifty-five divorced, professor of literature at the University of Oslo, is celebrating with solemnity the Christmas tree decorated, the elegant dress, the traditional dinner. While meditating on the sense of belonging that gives surrender with "childlike simplicity" in the collective ritual, seen from a window of the house in front of a man strangling a woman…


The law of nature by Kari Hotakainen
Nature has its laws, man has his nature, and Kari Hotakainen has a unique perspective on both. The law of nature is a novel that knows how to be both engaged and divinely funny.
After a terrible car accident, Rautala, a businessman in his sixties, he wakes up in hospital, unable to move and dependent on the care of others.
Rautala is a tax evader relapsed and arrogant (in the honest and rigorous Scandinavia!), a widower in constant conflict with her daughter Mira, politically aware woman, ecologist party activist who is about to give birth to her first child…

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