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Leksikon om lys og mørke
Leksikon om lys og mørke: roman | Simon Stranger
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AnneCecilie
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This is not the tagged, so I‘m tagging the last book I read by him. This is his newest book, published this fall.

An Afghanistan veteran is finding life afterwards hard, and makes a promise to his mother that he will not commit suicide until after Christmas, 304 days into the future. The conversation between son and mother, was so powerful. Then we get his life in camp in Afghanistan.

At the same time we meet Arman, and get the view on how

AnneCecilie many police from Afghanistan look at the foreign forces. Stranger always write so powerful and this book is no exception. 2y
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1. I think I do, I'm often critical of books with lots of pastels on the cover 🙈
2. Done 👠Bought a bunch of copies today, because this book is AWESOME and everyone I know will get one for their birthday this year.
3. I subscribe to NY times and the Norwegian Morgenbladet, and I also read the Guardian.
4. Wake up immediately, and then proceed to hate the world for about 60 mins.
5. @Mogoeg 😀

#friyayintro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

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AnneCecilie
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What do a Jewish family and Norway‘s worst Nazi group from WW2 have in common? Jonsvannsveien 46, a house in Trondheim (pictured above from the book‘s cover).

The book start when the author together with his family and in-laws are standing on a street corner in Trondheim as Hirsch Kommissar, an ancestor, is getting his stumbling block. The author‘s ten yr old son asks him why Hirsch got killed, and he tell him the truth, because he was a Jew. ⬇ï¸

AnneCecilie And for a ten yr old that is hard to get, and it starts a process in Stanger. When he sometime later is at a dinner at his in-laws and his mother-in-law tells him that she spent her first 7 yrs in the house that was the HQ for the Rinnan Group during the war, he knows he got a story. And so, he starts telling about his in-laws family and how WW2 treated them. Stranger also looks at Henry Oliver Rinnan. â¬‡ï¸ (edited) 5y
AnneCecilie Rinnan was Norway‘s worst Nazi during WW2, working for the Gestapo. Stanger looks at how Rinnan, 161 cm with huge inferiority problems because of his high and his family‘s perceived poverty wanted to prove himself. I never once during the reading of this novel get the impression that Rinnan shared the Nazi ideology, but he wanted to be seen and get appreciated and when the Nazi Generals did that he worked for them, and did everything they asked â¬‡ï¸ 5y
AnneCecilie him to. And I find that scary. Even though this is marketed as a novel, a piece of fiction, it is important to remember that all the cruel actions described in the novel is true. What‘s fiction is what Stranger thinks the different people felt while things happened. (edited) 5y
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AnneCecilie Stranger has had previous work translated into other languages so if this gets translated into a language you understand if definitely recommend picking this one up. 5y
Crazeedi Sounds horrifying and good 5y
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AnneCecilie
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I‘ve been on the waiting list at the library for six months for this one.

This got a lot of attention when it was published last fall, and I can‘t wait to start reading it now.

Siri_reads Den har jeg også på lista mi, men så turte jeg ikke begynne på den. Tror jeg kommer til å gråte hele tiden ?? 5y
AnneCecilie @Siri_reads jeg har lest de to første kapitlene og det har gått bra så langt. Og jeg gråter av alt. 5y
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