The Wind at the End of the World
Salvesen, Rune: Vinden ved verdens endeSeveral employees of Norway’s largest oil company commit suicide by jumping off a huge precipice. Or are they being pushed? In his small, white wooden house in Stavanger’s old town, their former colleague is trying to create some order in his life. He listens to classical music, drinks Japanese tea. But something else, something dark and uncontrollable is growing inside him
While a special police unit is on Jonas’ track, he tries to liberate himself by investigating his own mind. Who will succeed first?
Suspenseful and poetic at the same time, THE WIND AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a novel where the murderer himself is the main character. Among the important characters around him is God, Hitler and a Japanese tea seller who might be connected to the local mafia.
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Praise for THE WIND AT THE END OF THE WORLD:
“Obsessive and seductive on madness, murder and religion.”
(Tom Egeland, internationally bestselling author)
“Here is a wide cast of characters, many imaginary figures in Aa's head, from the Japanese tea grocer Koji to Adolf Hitler. Rune Salvesen’s writing impresses with its stabbing, almost hypnotic style, with a good grasp of Stavanger and Sicily. The novel is on the threshold of pain in some passages. The effect is powerful, so soon after the atrocities of 22 July.” (5 out of 6 stars)
(Guri Hjeltnes, VG, Norway)
“The displacement between Japanese tea ceremonies and murder, an idyll and catastrophe, chaos and control, are often elegantly written. A crimelike tension is created. The references to music and literature works well. Childhood trauma associated with neglect, sexual assault and suicide emerges. In the span between Stavanger and Sicily, Moloch and the mafia, the Pulpit Rock, Dale and Varhaug old cemetery, the embalmed bodies of killed children and the pregnant Chocolate Girl, the reader is given insight into a lonely, wounded, confused mind that performs evil deeds, often without moral scruples. It is not to be denied that the idea of Anders Behring Breivik arises.”
(Steinar Sivertsen, Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway)
First published: 2011, Aschehoug
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