By Derek Miller
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“A soulful, humane, and sparklingly humorous novel. Spend your time with Sheldon and corporate within the Scandinavian barren region and also you simply may well make peace together with your god, your ghosts, and yourself.” — Gary Shteyngart, writer of tremendous unhappy real love Story
Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to go away long island and movement in together with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway—a state of blue and ice with 1000 Jews, no longer considered one of them a former Marine sniper within the Korean conflict grew to become watch repairman. no longer earlier, anyway.
Home on my own one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute among the girl who lives upstairs and an competitive stranger. whilst occasions flip dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s younger son from the violence, and so they flee the scene. As Sheldon and the boy search for a secure haven in an alien global, earlier and current weave jointly, forcing them ever ahead to a wrenching second of truth.
“This is without doubt one of the most sensible books of the season, of any genre.” — Buffalo News
“Miller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesbø, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists.” — Booklist (starred evaluation)
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