"Rat Island" and other stories

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Jo Nesbø, Norwegian writer and leading exponent of northern film noir, never ceases to amaze. Breaking stereotypes, ignoring the rules of the genre, he shows a person so frankly, as if we ourselves were looking in the mirror, afraid to admit to ourselves: it's me. “There is not and will not be any censorship in my head,” says Nesbø. He never reveals his plans in advance, and until recently it was only known that the writer was working on two collections of short prose. The first of them included seven crime stories united by the theme of jealousy. In the second, Nesbø addresses the theme of the death of mankind. Our civilization is dying slowly but inevitably, the foundations of society are crumbling, people are losing their human appearance - but these are too general phrases for such an unpredictable, ambiguous, paradoxical author. Nesbo, like no one else, knows how to maneuver between topics, change perspectives, he either transforms into his characters, or he studies them from a distance, and in their actions against the background of everyday life or, on the contrary, in a completely fantastic situation, the fatal contradictions of the modern worldview, moral relativism, leading humanity to a dead end of self-destruction. To err is human, but while he rushes between black and white on the edge of the abyss, he has a chance for salvation ...

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