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Article: Evil under the midnight sun
- Article from:
- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2009
- Author:
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Karin Fossum, Norway's bestselling "queen of crime", brings
literary elegance and moral ambiguity to the detective novel. And
the empathy she has for killer and victim alike is born of personal
experience...
Along the 19th-century boulevard beside the offices of Karin
Fossum's publisher is a long aspect rolling out to the Oslofjord.
The morning light glints off its surface. It's a sight of calmness
and yet a little melancholy. This is Norway's appeal: a combination
of widescreen beauty and sorrow. This might be the home of the
midnight sun, but conversely it is plunged into a soul-sapping gloom
for the long winter months. It's the land of Edvard Munch and Henrik
Ibsen, of high suicide ...
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