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Norwegian by Night

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'Has the brains of a literary novel and the body of a thriller' The New York Times
'Miller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesbo, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists.' Booklist
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A former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.

Sheldon Horowitz-widowed, impatient, impertinent-has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway-a country of blue and ice, not the place for a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway.

Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor's young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As Sheldon and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, past and present weave together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.
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Acclaim for Norwegian by Night

Best New Crime Writer of the Year, Crime Writers Association
Best of 2013, The Guardian
Best of 2013, Financial Times
Best of 2013, The Economist
Best of Crime 2013, Kirkus
ISBN9781804991541
PublisherTransworld Publishers Ltd
Publication Date06/29/23
Pages304

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    Most reviews I had read before starting this book were kind of negative. I thought this was because the book was often described as a "literary thriller" and that it probably didn't have enough crime/thriller elements for many people. As I really enjoy literary thrillers I decided to give it a chance. There also seemed to be similar structures as in [b:The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared|13486632|The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)|Jonas Jonasson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1334848488l/13486632._SY75_.jpg|10365993] which I enjoyed very much. Now I have to admit that my assumptions were wrong. Norwegian by Night isn't the typical thriller. The crime elements only play a minor role. There are also some parts which could be called literary. But I often didn't get the author's point. For example I didn't understand why it should be important that the old man is Jewish. In my opinion the end also was unnecessarily brutal. The book was a quick read with some enjoyable parts. But it really isn't something I'd widely recommend.

    Sep 23, 2022

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mijumite4May 11, 2026

Ich hab Schwierigkeiten mitzuhalten, weil es sooooo viele Charaktere sind. Dann scheint der Protagonist auch mehrere Spitznamen zu haben und ich weiß nie wer gemeint ist. Außerdem gibt es super oft zeitsprünge, die gerade im Hörbuch nur schwer zu erkennen sind.

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