Norwegian Lyn Ullman came to literature with the novel “Before You Fall Asleep,” which was translated into 30 countries and immediately made her famous. This book includes two new novels by the writer. The plot of “When You’re Near” is a two-second dizzying fall from the roof of a multi-story building. The hero of “The Gift” learns on the very first pages that he has cancer and his days are numbered. The characters balance on the brink of phantasmagoria and reality. Both novels are unusually subtle, bewitching, but sometimes icy and gloomy, alluring, like a black ice hole.