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Even Those Unmoved By Its Subject Will Thrill To [scandinavian Noir], A Beautifully Crafted Inquiry Into Fiction, Reality, Crime And Place . . . Perhaps When It Comes To Fiction And Reality, What We Need Most Are Critics Like Lesser, Who Can Dissect The Former With The Tools Of The Latter. --kate Tuttle, The New York Times Book Review An In-depth And Personal Exploration Of Scandinavian Crime Fiction As A Way Into Scandinavian Culture At Large For Nearly Four Decades, Wendy Lesser's Primary Source Of Information About Three Scandinavian Countries—sweden, Norway, And Denmark—was Mystery And Crime Novels, And The Murders Committed And Solved In Their Pages. Having Never Visited The Region, Lesser Constructed A Fictional Scandinavia Of Her Own Making, Something Between A Map, A Portrait, And A Cultural History Of A Place That Both Exists And Does Not Exist. Lesser’s Scandinavia Is Disproportionately Populated With Police Officers, But Also With The Stuff Of Everyday Life, The Likes Of Which Are Relayed In Great Detail In The Novels She Read: A Fully Realized World Complete With Its Own Traditions, Customs, And, Of Course, People. Over The Course Of Many Years, Lesser’s Fictional Scand

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Author

Lesser Wendy, Wendy Lesser

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250798404

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14