Jealousy and other stories
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Jealousy 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: a feeling ancient, powerful, painful, uncontrollable, and transforming human nature. The two meet on a plane. She reveals that she wanted to die because of her husband's infidelity and signed a contract with a company that stages suicides. If only the woman knew who was sitting in the seat next to her... A tourist has gone missing on a Greek island, and a detective with a unique ability to detect jealousy during interrogation is brought in to investigate... Suspicion falls on the missing man's brother, and this Cain and Abel motif echoes the plot of Nesbø's latest novel, The Kingdom. Jealousy disguises itself as a thirst for justice, drives one mad, poisons one's life, and changes it for the better only when the rival is eliminated, literally and figuratively. Nesbø's characters include cynics and simpletons, but they always act unpredictably—even to themselves, because human logic is powerless against the green-eyed monster.
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