Minnesota madness: authors (and habits) from the prairie Originally from Minnesota, ABC's owner Lynn wrote about this now-topical subject and gives us a roundup of some of the beloved authors who hail from her home state. By Lynn If you've been watching the courageous, caring people of Minnesota these past weeks, [...]
Shame by Annie Ernaux WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo [...]
By Lília March brought with it the sun, and we are all invested in enjoying it reading as many books as possible. We can see that by all the different titles that you, our customers, choose to buy. Our bestsellers this month include many different genres, from serious issues to some [...]
Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this with you, [...]
Congratulations to Han Kang, who is this year's Nobel Prize laureate for the Literature category! We all probably know her from her International Booker Prize winning The Vegetarian, and thankfully since then quite a few of her other works have been translated into English as well. The Nobel Prize jury lauded [...]
Written by Lauren Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his "innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old's major works, written in the Nynorsk variation of Norwegian, include the Septology [...]
