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The Hermit (Paperback)
Thomas Rydahl; Translated by K. E. Semmel
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* THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING BESTSELLER FOR FANS OF THE BRIDGE *
Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel Winner of
the Danish Debutant Award Winner of the Harald Mogensen Prize for
the best Danish crime novel A car is found on a deserted beach on
the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. On the back seat lies a
cardboard box containing the body of a small boy buried in
newspaper cuttings. No one knows his name, and there is no trace of
a driver. The last thing an ailing tourist resort needs is a
murder, and the police are desperate to close the case. The island
is rife with rumours about the reclusive Erhard. Two decades of
self-imposed exile from his wife and children have left him
alienated and alone, whiling away his days in a drunken haze,
driving an old taxi to get by. This unlikeliest of detectives
determines to solve the crime himself - and he has nothing to lose.
But how can one old man, cut off from the modern world, solve a
murder whose dangerous web of deceit stretches far beyond the small
island? And what if the killer forces Erhard to confront his own
long-buried past? Winner of the prestigious Glass Key Award and an
instant bestseller in Denmark, The Hermit is taking the
international publishing world by storm. Acutely observed and
psychologically penetrating, this is existential noir at its
finest.
When Mathilde's stepfather dies in Denmark, she is plagued by
worries about the potential death of her American father on the
other side of the Atlantic. In a desire to catalog her love for,
and memories with, her father, Mathilde travels to America and
writes a novel about their relationship that she has always known
she should write. Lone Star is about distances: the miles between a
father and daughter; the detachment between Mathilde's Danish
upbringing and her American family; the separation of language; and
the passage of time between Mathilde's adulthood and the summers
she spent as a child in St. Louis. These irrevocable gaps swirl as
Mathilde voyages to meet her father in Texas to explore a
relationship that still has time to grow. At once a travelogue and
family novel, Lone Star occupies the often-mythologized landscape
of Texas to share a story of being alive and claiming the right to
feel at home, even across the ocean.
Simon Fruelund's Civil Twilight is a tight, precisely told novella
about the surprising interconnectedness of life in the suburbs and
about people's attitudes towards religion, death, family, and sex.
The 14 stories in this collection display the often quiet,
inconspicuous way in which terrible truths and experiences are
intimated: the death of a sailboarder makes a widower see deeper
into love and loss; a young poet visits his former teacher only to
discover he is literally not the person he used to be; a
middle-aged man glimpses the terrible humdrum of his third marriage
as his son embarks on a new chapter in his life. Conveyed without
grandeur or pathos, the revelations in these minimalist stories
demonstrate clearly and effectively Fruelund's gift of subtlety and
nuance; like scenes from life, characters' dramas are played out in
brief but brilliant flashes. Ranging across the wide arc of human
experience, from the comic to the tragic, each piece explores the
complex emotions of the human heart.
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