Norway House’s book club meets monthly. This is a great way to get to know others in our community and get in on some really great reads! Books are available for sale at ALSO Ingebretsen’s Gavebutikk at Norway House. There is no fee to attend.
About A Modern Family
When Liv, Ellen, and Håkon and their partners and children arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce. Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history. A bittersweet novel of regret, relationships, and rare psychological insights, A Modern Family encourages us to look at the people closest to us more carefully and ultimately reveals that it’s never too late for change.
En moderne familie, translated from Norwegian by Rosie Hedger.
From GoodReadsAbout Helga Flatland
Helga Flatland is one of Norway’s most awarded and widely read authors. Born in Telemark, Norway, in 1984, she made her literary debut in 2010 with the novel Stay If You Can, Leave If You Must, for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas’ First Book Prize. She has written four novels and a children’s book and has won several other literary awards. Her fifth novel, A Modern Family, was published to wide acclaim in Norway in August 2017 and was a number-one bestseller. The rights have subsequently been sold across Europe, and the novel has sold over 100,000 copies. A Modern Family marked Helga’s first English publication when it was released in 2019, achieving exceptional critical acclaim and sales and leading to Helga being dubbed the ‘Norwegian Anne Tyler.’ One Last Time is her second book to be translated into English (by Rosie Hedger) and published in 2021.
About Rosie Hedger
Rosie Hedger was born in Scotland and completed her M.A. (Hons.) in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with a distinction in Norwegian. Rosie spent a year at the University of Oslo, taking courses in Norwegian language and literature and researching her dissertation on contemporary Norwegian fiction. Since completing her studies, Rosie has lived in Sweden and Denmark and is now based in the U.K.
Rosie’s translation of Gine Cornelia Pedersen’s Zero was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2019, and her translation of Agnes Ravatn’s The Bird Tribunal won an English PEN Translates Award in 2016. Ravatn’s novel was later selected for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, broadcast in January 2017, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. In 2022, Rosie became a mentor to an emerging Norwegian translator with the support of the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translators Programme. She is a member of the Translator’s Association.