Tag: Irene Lami
From Inquisition to Tortuga – Interview with Valerio Evangelisti Part II
Here you can find the conclusion of the long interview that Valerio Evangelisti, with delightful willingness, accepted to yield us. The first part can...
Mikael Niemi – The man who died like a salmon
It is considered as a crime novel, but perhaps this is due to a habit rather than to a true adherence to this style....
Flemming Jensen – The Bank Robber Blues
The bank robber blues is a crime novel definitely out of the ordinary: the main character Max kills the Danish prime minister. In very...
Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen) – Winter’s Tales
Winter’s Tales is a collection of eleven short stories, wrote in the ‘30ies and published in 1942.
The pieces contain several recurring themes that go...
Stig Dagerman – Dikter, noveller, prosafragment
Dikter, noveller, prosafragment is a collection of short stories, essays and poems published between 1947 and 1955 in Stockholm.
This is not a homogeneous collection,...
Gunnar Staalesen – The woman in the fridge
This is a title of a book series starring Varg Veum, name that traces an ancient Nordic expression, vargr i véum, "wolf in the...
Jo Nesbø – The Redbreast
As always, when one browses through the pages, smells the paper, has a look at the back cover of a Nordic crime novel, they...
Dag Solstad – Shyness and Dignity
The day came when Elias Rukla came across something too universal to be compared to an intimate Proustian madeleine, and too socially active to...
Mike Larssons’ “Rymliga hjärta”
Tomelilla, Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden. Mike has just been released from prison and he wants to have his own redemption by taking...
Stig Dagerman – German Autumn
This short novel can without doubt be defined as journalism; it is, however, a kind of journalism we are not accustomed to, a journalism...
