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رغم الكآبة التي سيطرت على خط الأحداث، إلا أن الرواية مشوقة وتلمس المشاعر الإنسانية بقوة في بعض أقسامها

This book is an interesting study of old crimes that generate new crimes through genealogy. Reykjavik Police Inspector Erlendur is called to the scene of a murder of an old man, Holberg. He discovers that the man was accused of rape back in 1962 and that there was a child. Erlendur follows the invest Leggi tutto

I am HIM This cryptic message is left with the body of an elderly man when he is found dead in his apartment in Reykjavik. So begins Arnaldur Indridason’s brilliant contribution to the Nordic Noir sub-genre of crime literature. First published in 2000 in Iceland under the title Mýrin, I read and thor Leggi tutto

رواية تمزج بين الادب البوليسي والرعب.. يصور الكاتب جريمة تقع في إحدى المدن الآيسلندية حيث تعثر الشرطة على جثة رجل ستيني داخل شقته ويقوم المحقق أرنالدور بتحريات واسعة وبمكر وعبقرية (وشئ من الحظ) بكشف خيوط الجريمة والعثور على القاتل.. ينقلك الراوي الى مجتمع غريب وجريمة غير مألوفة .. رواية مشوقة جداً ت Leggi tutto

I've taken an interest to Iceland ever since I read Halldór Laxness. Seeing there are a few Icelandic authors in translation - or maybe they are indeed just a few - I wanted to explore this country through the detective novels of Arnaldur Indriðason, as well. Luckily, he gives some interesting insig Leggi tutto

[9/10] "Squalid, pointless and committed without any attempt to hide it, change the clues or conceal the evidence.""Yes," said Erlendur. "A pathetic Icelandic murder." First impressions can be misleading. At first glance the murder of a lonely seventy year old man in his own apartment is just a sord Leggi tutto

As Jar City begins, a seventy-year-old man is found dead in his musty, malodorous flat, obviously the victim of foul play. Reykjavik police Inspector Erlendur and colleague Sigurdur Óli find a strange note on the body. Three words. The third word is “HIM.” We don’t learn the rest until much later. C Leggi tutto

This very intriguing novel introduces Inspector Elendur Sveinsson of the Reykjavik Police Department. In Iceland, where virtually everyone is related, people are known by their first names. Erlendur is in the throes of middle age and not in the best of health. He lives alone and has two troubled chi Leggi tutto

"- (...). Oamenii dispar, vor să dispară, își planifică singuri dispariția." "- (...). Nimeni nu e suficient de puternic. Repulsia te bântuie ca un spirit rău care își face adăpost în mintea ta până ce crezi că mizeria e viața însăși și pentru că ai uitat cât de obișnuit trăiesc oamenii." Leggi tutto

Rating: 3 bleak * of five It's hard for me to believe this is a debut novel. The author is, of course, a journalist and so the possessor of writerly skills; still, a novel is something wholly and entirely other than what he could be expected to do in his sleep. I think the first-novel-ishness comes ou Leggi tutto