-is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly.
To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. With an endearing combination of dexterity and daring, Sheldon manages to elude the police in what is hostile, foreign territory for him. But what he doesn't know is that the police and the gang both know where he's heading.
Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man coming to terms with the tragedy of his own life as he tries to save another's. It combines laconic, deadpan humour, moral seriousness, visceral grief, and narrative tension in a remarkable way.
An extraordinary debut, featuring a memorable hero.
'Thoughtful, complex, gripping and very funny.' The Sydney Morning Herald
'Humane, Blackly funny, heart-breaking ... Brilliant.' Herald Sun
'It is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful novels you will read this year.' ABC Radio
By:
Derek B. Miller Imprint: Scribe Publications Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 199mm,
Width: 128mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 302g ISBN:9781922070425 ISBN 10: 1922070424 Publication Date:24 April 2013 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Shortlisted for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2013.
Winner of CrimeFest Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2014
Winner of CrimeFest Goldsboro Last Laugh Award 2014.
Winner of CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2013
Winner of CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2013.
