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The Hermit de Thomas Rydahl

The Hermit

Autor Thomas Rydahl Traducere de K. E. Semmel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 noi 2016
"If Danish debut author Rydahl is launching a series, he's come up with a winner... A languid stroll with a sage detective through vivid locales that leaves a lasting impression."
—Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Fiction

Winner of the Danish Debutant Award

Winner of the Harald Mogensen Prize for Best Danish Crime Novel

A car is found crashed on a beach in the Canary Island resort of Fuerteventura. In the trunk is a cardboard box containing the body of an infant — no one knows his name, and there is no trace of a driver.

The last thing Fuerteventura needs is a murder. The island’s already got half-empty bars and windswept beaches, and the local police are under pressure to abandon the investigation.

But long-time islander Erhard, who sees more than most people, won’t let the investigation drop — and he has nothing to lose. He has severed ties with his wife and child in Denmark and has cut himself off from the modern world.

Can an old man who knows nothing about mobile phones, the internet or social media possibly solve a murder in the modern world, especially one that stretches far beyond the sandy beaches of Fuerteventura?
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ISBN-13: 9781780748894
ISBN-10: 1780748892
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Oneworld Publications
Colecția Oneworld Publications

Recenzii

"A nine-fingered part-time piano tuner, Canary Island cab driver, and self-appointed investigator ambles through a case involving the death of an infant. If Danish debut author Rydahl is launching a series, he's come up with a winner in what would be its first installment. (The book garnered the Danish Crime Glass Key Award.) Rydahl centers on a canny, idiosyncratic protagonist, Erhard Jorgensen, who will charm readers. Jorgensen subsists on tinned food—eaten from the tin—and nightly tucks under his pillow a finger he found at an accident site; he hopes to pass it off as his missing tenth digit. Nearing 70, Erhard may be the eponymous hermit to some on the island, but it's clear that as a taxi driver involved with his neighbors and co-worker, the term is a misnomer. His ties to humankind emerge when he discovers an infant, probably 12 weeks old, in a car abandoned on a beach. How and why did this happen? Where are the parents? Haunted by the image of the baby, Erhard goes after the case—and in his own fashion. When police tell him they've found the culprit, a prostitute named Alina, Erhard insists they're just trying to avoid a PR disaster because tourism is down. To deny the police evidence, he kidnaps the working girl, musing that prostitutes "sell oneself in bite-sized chunks garnished with one's soul." Then he finds Alina brutally murdered. To keep police unaware the prostitute is dead, Erhard disguises her corpse by stripping the body of his friend Beatriz, beaten unconscious by unknown thugs, and putting her clothes on Alina. Meanwhile, Beatriz's boyfriend Raul, who works for an island crime syndicate, goes missing. The case doesn't exactly hurtle to its melancholy finish, but Erhard's wry musings and Rydahl's high-resolution images of the island help the reader to settle into the deliberate tempo. A languid stroll with a sage detective through vivid locales that leaves a lasting impression."
—Kirkus Reviews

“Remarkable... a flawless, immaculate piece of work.”
—Kristian Ditlev Jensen, danish author

Notă biografică

THOMAS RYDAHL is a writer and translator. The Hermit is his debut novel and was awarded the Danish Debutant Award, the first time in the award's history that it has gone to a thriller. The Hermit has since gone on to win the prestigious Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel and the Harald Mogensen Prize for the best Danish crime novel. Film rights to The Hermit have been optioned by Pretty Pictures, the company behind The Danish Girl. Thomas lives with his wife and daughter in Fredensborg, Denmark.

K. E. SEMMEL is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in Ontario Review, Washington Post, World Literature Today and elsewhere. He is a recipient of numerous grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and is a 2016 NEA Literary Translation Fellow. He lives in Milwaukee, America.