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Samson & Roberto

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Boken inneholder tre bøker om Samson og Roberto. Samson er en meget stygg hund. Roberto er en smart og sulten katt.

Arven etter onkel Rin-Tin-Tei: Samson og Roberto deler en ussel hybel langt øst i byen der solen nesten aldri viser seg. Nå pakker de koffertene og begir seg på vandring mot Fjordgløtt Pensjonat som Samson har arvet etter en onkel. Mange eventyr venter dem.

Krakilske kamerater: Denne sommeren kommer torsken Helge for å bo på pensjonatet, samtidig som pønkrockbandet Krakilske Kamerater også skal bo der, i all hemmelighet.

Pater Pietros hemmelighet: Nå er det høst, og pensjonatet får besøk av en stor og usympatisk hund, en nyhetsrotte havner i kjelleren til von Struts og en hissig italiensk bever kommer til Fjordgløtt.

239 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

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Ingvar Ambjørnsen

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Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (1956-2025) was a Norwegian writer. He is best known for his "Elling" tetralogy: Utsikt til paradiset (1993), Fugledansen (1995), Brødre i blodet (1996), and Elsk meg i morgen (1999).

Brødre i blodet ("Blood brothers") was turned into a successful movie, entitled Elling, which received an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category in 2001. The English translation of the novel is called Beyond the Great Indoors.

His debut novel was a semi-autobiography called 23-salen ("The 23rd Row"), in which he criticized Norway's efforts to take care of psychically challenged individuals. In all his novels he has spoken the outsiders' cause, as he did in his break-through novel Hvite Niggere ("White Niggers") in 1986. The novel is about a young man who leads a life somewhat on the edges of normal society.

He is also known for the youth's book series "Pelle og Proffen" which circles around two detective teenagers, getting involved in all kinds of mysteries or crimes involving drugs, pollution and neo-Nazism among other things. He started this project after having read some of Franklin W. Dixon's books about The Hardy Boys. The books Døden på Oslo S, Giftige Løgner, and De Blå Ulvene of this series were also turned into successful movies. In 2005 the book Drapene i Barkvik ("The murders in Barkvik") appeared, about the teenager Fillip Moberg attempting to solve an axe murder in a small Norwegian village.

Ambjørnsen has received many prizes for his writing. Among them is the prize for the 80s best book for children and young adults (Pelle and Proffen books), the Tabu prize in 2001, Telenor Culture Award 2002, and the Brage Prize 1995.

His three Samson and Roberto books have become particularly popular in Russia, in part due to the illustrations by Nikolai Vorontsov, which also contribute carefully orchestrated local Russian-related colloquialisms to the stories.

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November 20, 2019
Helt fantastisk. Faren min leste den for meg når jeg var mindre, og leser den enda. Morsom og spennende på den tiden, fullt med morsomme og uforglemmelige karakterer!
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December 7, 2012
En utrolig morsom bok om en utrolig stygg hund og en meget smart katt. Sammen driver de Fjordgløtt pensjonat, og kaller seg pensjonister...
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September 29, 2013
Utrolig søte barnebøker. Denne bør være en av de bøkene man leser for barna sine.
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