Norwegian by Night
(Sprache: Englisch)
Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller is an edge-of-your-seat thriller written with great humanity and humour, following an elderly American on the run across Norway with a kid in danger.
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Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller is an edge-of-your-seat thriller written with great humanity and humour, following an elderly American on the run across Norway with a kid in danger.
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He will not admit it to Rhea and Lars - never, of course not - but Sheldon can't help but wonder what it is he's doing here...Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. An ex-Marine, he talks often to the ghosts of his past - the friends he lost in the Pacific and the son who followed him into the US Army, and to his death in Vietnam.
When Sheldon witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex, he rescues her six-year-old son and decides to run. Pursued by both the Balkan gang responsible for the murder, and the Norwegian police, he has to rely on training from over half a century before to try and keep the boy safe. Against a strange and foreign landscape, this unlikely couple, who can't speak the same language, start to form a bond that may just save them both.
An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero, Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man still trying to come to terms with the tragedies of his life. Compelling and sophisticated, it is both a chase through the woods thriller and an emotionally haunting novel about ageing and regret.
Autoren-Porträt von Derek B. Miller
Derek B. Miller's acclaimed and prize winning debut novel Norwegian by Night was published in 2013. He is the director of The Policy Lab and a senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He lives in Oslo with his wife and children.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Derek B. Miller
- 2013, Main, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 24,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571294251
- ISBN-13: 9780571294251
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Derek B Miller's fine first novel is as strange as the two figures at its centre: a near-senile American and a silent Eastern European boy in fancy dress, fleeing across a country where both are aliens. In Norwegian by Night, everyone is in the wrong place (even the few Norwegian characters seem reluctant city dwellers) and the resulting sense of disorientation is not hard for the reader to share; for the novel is ostensibly a Scandinavian thriller yet recalls Saul Bellow and Philip Roth's more cerebral creations, and its gun-toting action hero is 82 and has dementia ... a remarkably confident debut that is at once a rich psychological study, a political -parable that seems to be about America's compulsion to intervene abroad, and a moving story of an old man's last chanceto slay his demons. John Dugdale The Sunday Times
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