โ Miller, Derek B.
๐ Fiction
๐
2013
๐ Faber and Faber
๐ English
โ 228 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Norwegian by night: a novel
โ Scribed by Derek Miller
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Mariner Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner
An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
"A soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilderness and you just might make peace with your god, your ghosts, and yourself." -- Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story
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 with one thousand Jews, not one of them 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...
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