Red Milk - Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023
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| Verlag | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 144 |
| Format | 12,6 x 1,6 x 1,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 107 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781529355925 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52935592UA |
By the internationally acclaimed Icelandic writer Sjón, a timely novel about a young neo-Nazi in post-WWII Iceland and the roots of the far-right global networks of today.
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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
'A book like a blade of light, searching out and illuminating the darkest corners of history . . . It's vivid, unputdownable, alive, and written with unerring artfulness and subtlety.' Neel Mukherjee
Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavík during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring brother and son, at nineteen he seems set to lead a conventional life. Yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party with ties to a burgeoning international network of neo-Nazis - a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.
In this striking novel, inspired by one of the ringleaders of an Icelandic neo-Nazi group formed in the late 1950s, Sjón masterfully constructs the portrait of an ordinary young man who becomes a right-wing zealot. Exposing the roots of the far-right movements of today, Red Milk is a time ly reminder that the seeds of extremism can be hard to detect and the allure of fascism remains dangerously potent.
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Sjón's policy of omission-of drama, psychology, violence, grandeur of any kind-results in a delicious tension. He tempts us to expect so much of the novel, and though he never provides the relief of clean culminations, he manages to keep the reader wanting. Asymptote Journal