Rat Island and Other Stories
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Rat Island and Other Stories
6.99 €
Jo Nesbø, a Norwegian writer and leading exponent of Nordic noir, never ceases to amaze. Breaking stereotypes and disregarding genre conventions, he reveals humanity with such candor, as if we were looking in a mirror, afraid to admit: this is me. "There is no censorship in my head, and there never will be," Nesbø asserts. He never reveals his plans in advance, and until recently, all that was known was that he was working on two collections of short fiction. The first contains seven crime stories united by the theme of jealousy. In the second, Nesbø addresses the theme of humanity's demise. Our civilization is slowly but inexorably perishing, the foundations of society are crumbling, people are losing their humanity—but these are too general statements for such an unpredictable, ambiguous, and paradoxical author. Nesbø, like no other, is adept at maneuvering between themes and shifting perspectives. He sometimes morphs into his characters, sometimes studies them from a distance. Their actions, whether against the backdrop of the mundane or, conversely, in utterly fantastical situations, reveal the fatal contradictions of the modern worldview, the moral relativism that drives humanity to the brink of self-destruction. To err is human, but while we vacillate between black and white on the brink of the abyss, we still have a chance for salvation...
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