"Rat Island" and other stories
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"Rat Island" and other stories
4.99 €
Ju Nesbø, Norwegian writer and leading representative of Nordic noir, never ceases to amaze. Breaking stereotypes, disregarding the rules of the genre, he shows a person as frankly as if we were looking in the mirror ourselves, afraid to admit to ourselves: it's me. "There is and will be no censorship in my head," Nesbø asserts. He never reveals his plans in advance, and until recently it was only known that the writer is working on two collections of short prose. The first includes seven crime stories united by the theme of jealousy. In the second, Nesbø turns to the theme of the death of mankind. Our civilization is dying slowly but inevitably, the foundations of society are crumbling, people are losing their humanity - but these are too general phrases for such an unpredictable, ambiguous, paradoxical author. Nesbø, like no one else, is able to maneuver between themes, to change the perspective, he then reincarnates in his characters, then studies them from a distance, and in their actions against the background of the ordinary or, on the contrary, in a completely fantastic situation manifest the fatal contradictions of the modern worldview, moral relativism, leading humanity to the dead end of self-destruction. Man is inherently wrong, but as long as he is swinging between black and white on the edge of the abyss, he has a chance for salvation ...
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