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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: The Human Part by Kari Hotakainen
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Friday, 19 October 2012. The Human Part by Kari Hotakainen. The Human Part is an abstract and quite one-sided view of modern Helsinki (and Finland), but as long as you remember this fact, Hotakainen's quirky novel is a joy to read. But soon they disagree on the truthfulness of the end product. Salme does not like 'made-up books'. But the author cannot help himself, and turns Salme's colourful life into fiction. Becaus...
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: January 2010
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Monday, 25 January 2010. Last weekend a couple of friends mentioned the British Wallander series starring Kenneth Branagh. There's a limit to how much bleakness you can stand,' said one. The Mankel interview on the BBC was hot on the heels of an article commenting on the increased taste for Scandinavian crime fiction by Boris Johnson in the Telegraph. His theory is that,. Boris Johnson did not, however, comment on the...
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Wednesday, 28 March 2012. Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson. This crime story, set in modern Stockholm, is Ohlsson's debut novel. It has a gruesome subject matter of disappearing children, a current favourite topic amongst Scandinavian crime writers, it seems. (See Boy in a Suitcase. By Leene Kaarbol and Agnette Friis, for example.). The narrative moves to a train journey during which a child goes missing. At first the...
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: Siri by Lena Einhorn
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Sunday, 10 February 2013. Siri by Lena Einhorn. I'm more than a little obsessed with August Strindberg so when my sister brought me this Swedish book about his first and most famous wife, Siri von Essen, I was delighted. Firstly, she often finishes a chapter with telling us what is to come, "Två gånger skulle Betty von Essen komma att avgöra sin dotters öde, båda gångerna i helt motsatt riktning mot vad hon avsett....
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Thursday, 4 August 2011. Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum. As you might have noticed from this blog, I do really enjoy a good Scandinavian crime novel. I treat them as leisure reading, as opposed to books I have. Her main - recurring - character Inspector Seijer (this is the seventh in the series) is a mere spectator in the plot, and only appears a third way through the narrative. Bad Intentions has been described a 'wh...
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: In the Darkness by Karin Fossum
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Thursday, 26 July 2012. In the Darkness by Karin Fossum. Is one of 10 books this prolific Norwegian queen of crime, Karin Fossum. Has written featuring the reticent Inspector Seijer. This first book in the series, which came out in Norway in 1995, has only now been translated into English, even though the other nine titles have already been published here. I am a great fan of Fossum. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: September 2013
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Saturday, 28 September 2013. Looking at how rarely I have time to post on this blog, I've come to the conclusion that I may just have too many blogs. You may know that as well as writing this blog, I also write another one, Helena's London Life. Plus, at the moment, I'm in the middle of writing a sequel to my first Nordic love story, The Englishman. Goodbye for now, but see you over at Helena's London Life. Enter your...
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: May 2011
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Thursday, 5 May 2011. My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. It's refreshing to read a Scandinavian crime thriller that hasn't got a middle-aged, morose male as the heroic detective. I do love Wallander and his Scandinavian angst, as well as the dark political intrigue of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, but sometimes it's lovely to have a heroine who is intelligent, funny and has no piercings. In My Soul to Take.
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: February 2013
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Sunday, 10 February 2013. Siri by Lena Einhorn. I'm more than a little obsessed with August Strindberg so when my sister brought me this Swedish book about his first and most famous wife, Siri von Essen, I was delighted. Firstly, she often finishes a chapter with telling us what is to come, "Två gånger skulle Betty von Essen komma att avgöra sin dotters öde, båda gångerna i helt motsatt riktning mot vad hon avsett....
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review: December 2010
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Finnish and Scandinavian Review. Critical review of books from Finland and Scandinavia. Thursday, 9 December 2010. Purge by Sofi Oksanen. It took me a long time to get around reading this book. From the very start when I saw it in Finland and then heard about its brilliance from my friends, I knew the subject matter would be very difficult for me to read about. Especially if the book was well written. The original Finnish version of Purge, Puhdistus. Why does she still wear two pairs of underpants? Yeste...