The Redbreast
Jo Nesbø
Read January 2009
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch
Essay written Saturnday, March 28th, 2009
I think I discovered this author through Silence Of The Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason. That book won the Glass Key Award, for best Nordic crime fiction. Nordic crime? I'm all over it. Wikipedia did the rest.
So the library had some Jo Nexbø, so I reqested it and picked it up. I didn't know it would be 500 pages long, but oh well. I loved it. Springtime in Oslo. Compelling story, too; it kept me guessing in a good way.
(Digression: that Glass Key Award was also given to two other authors I've previously read but didn't know about. Peter Høeg for his astonishing Smilla's Sense Of Snow, which I read in 2003, and should read again. And Leif Davidsen, who won it for a different book than The Russian Singer, which I also read in 2003, oddly enough. Must have been year of the Danes in my life. Did I read Hamlet then too? The late Stieg Larsson also won the Glass Key, and although I haven't read it, his The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is on my "List" on the Ramsey County Library website. It has 117 requests on it as of today.)
Back To Books
|
