Nominated for the 2024 Norwegian book award The Brage Prize

Kobe and his mother move to a new city and a new apartment building. There Abby is waiting, who says he can fix jobs for Kobe. One of the jobs is to collect something of great value from a woman on her deathbed. This is how Kobe suddenly find himself holding a two-thousand-year-old oil lamp from the Roman Empire in his hands.
Luminous Lies is a story about stories – a spectacular fable about hope, dreams and reality. Because Kobe is a brilliant liar. But can he lie himself out of his own story?