Books set in Oslo, Norway

Norway — Oslo

2009
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
Kjersti Skomsvold · novel · 2009
A lonely old woman in an Oslo tower block decides to leave some trace of her life.
2008
I Curse the River of Time
Per Petterson · novel · 2008
1989: as the Berlin Wall falls, an Oslo man’s marriage and his mother’s health fail.
2007
The Snowman
Jo Nesbø · crime · 2007
With the first snow in Oslo, women start to disappear, each leaving a snowman.
2001
The Half Brother
Lars Saabye Christensen · novel · 2001
From 1945: three generations of women and two half-brothers in an Oslo flat.
1996
Naïve. Super
Erlend Loe · novel · 1996
At 25, a young man quits university and sits out a crisis in his brother’s Oslo flat.
1993
Blind Goddess
Anne Holt · crime · 1993
An Oslo detective uncovers drug money and corruption behind a riverside murder.
1890
Hunger
Knut Hamsun · novel · 1890
A starving young writer wanders Kristiania, today’s Oslo, too proud to ask for help.