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Lars Saabye Christensen

Born

in Oslo, Norway

September 21, 1953

Website

https://www.cappelendamm.no/forfatter/lars-saab...

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Children's

Influences

Knut Hamsun, John Lennon, Marcel Proust, Graham Greene, H. C. Anderse ...more

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Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books.
Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made th ...more

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Lars Saabye Christensen’s books

Average rating: 3.94 · 27,428 ratings · 1,526 reviews · 171 distinct works • Similar authors

	Beatles (Beatles-trilogien, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 6,365 ratings — published 1984 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen, Katriina Savolainen (Translator), Oddvar Hellan (Innleser), Kenneth Steven (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 4,323 ratings — published 2001 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Byens Spor: Ewald og Maj (Byens Spor, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 2,063 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maskeblomstfamilien 3.75 avg rating — 1,483 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Byens Spor: Maj (Byens Spor, #2) 4.37 avg rating — 1,263 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bly (Beatles-trilogien, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 1,489 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Byens Spor: Skyggebogen (Byens Spor, #3) by Lars Saabye Christensen, Ellen Boen (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 1,031 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Herman 3.76 avg rating — 1,155 ratings — published 1988 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bisettelsen (Beatles-trilogien, #3) 3.37 avg rating — 764 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modellen: Roman 3.59 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Lars Saabye Christensen

Beatles-trilogien (3 books)
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Lars Saabye Christensen

4.08 avg rating — 8,617 ratings

Byens spor (4 books)
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Lars Saabye Christensen

4.18 avg rating — 4,902 ratings

Quotes by Lars Saabye Christensen (?)

“We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.”
― Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother

tags: life, nostalgia

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“Упътване за употреба

когато падаш, падни
със стил: не повличай други със себе си, падни
преди да стане късно, падни
за бога, не там, където е удобно да се
пада, падни там, където си изправен
и падни ниско

изправи се на съвсем друго място”
― Lars Saabye Christensen, Pinnsvinsol: dikt

tags: inspirational, poetry-of-life, Таралежово-слънце

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“... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.”
― Lars Saabye Christensen, Beatles

tags: music

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