Norwegian by Night - Softcover

Derek B. Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571294278 ISBN 13: 9780571294275

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber He will not admit it to Rhea and Lars - never. of course not - but Sheldon cant help but wonder what it is hes 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 cant speak the same lang...

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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 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.

“This is one of the best books of the season, of any genre.” — Buffalo News

“Miller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesbø, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists.” — Booklist (starred review)

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[author photo] DEREK B. MILLER is the director of the Policy Lab and is a senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Born and raised in Boston, he has lived abroad for more than fifteen years, in Norway, Switzerland, Britain, Israel, and Hungary. He now lives in Oslo with his wife and two children.
 

About the Author:

Derek B. Miller is the director of The Policy Lab and a senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Geneva, and an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, in cooperation with St Catherine's College, Oxford. He lives in Oslo with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571294278
• ISBN 13: 9780571294275
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292