OL8052969W Page_number_confidence 97.59 Pages 582 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201207102218 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 535 Scandate 20201204233659 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780753821664 Tts_version 4. ".a northern train/ yowling outbound.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:09:40 Boxid IA40011116 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Click here for the lowest price Paperback, 9781400096657, 1400096650.Daniyal Mueenuddin's "Nawabdin Electrician".What will Americans think about a book that draws parallels between office bullying and genocide? The novel is about the ways people deceive themselves and allow themselves to be cruel - and it really is about that, working at the problem from different angles, examining it closely (how someone might rationalize snubbing a coworker) and from afar (why populations decide to wipe each other out).Īnyway, I'm interested to see how it fares here in the US. As the relationships between the women become more and more strained, Jungersen includes articles on the psychology of evil written by one of them (all interesting). The novel's about four women who work at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide, whose workplace-persecution of each other reflects, and is possibly a result of, the subject of their work. A book like this one, which is in many ways very much like an American thriller (there are bad guys, and guns), is just different enough to draw attention to the staleness of some of our habits. The most violent confrontation comes about only because. Even in much of our so-called literary fiction, characters are developed in a certain way, with a predictable mix of "sympathetic" and "flawed" "plot points" are meted out at regular intervals dialogue always serves the same functions, etc. The Exception is an uneven thriller, with Jungersen particularly poor at setting up the 'thriller' elements: characters put themselves at risk (pretend they are someone they are not, break into a house, etc.) and are saved by wild and unlikely coincidence far too often, for example. Though it's a psychological thriller, which is a pretty familiar genre for an American reader, the differences between this Danish novel and a hypothetical American one about the same subject show how much of what we read is more or less formulaic. W6 pal Jeffrey Frank has written a review of this terrific novel that pretty much covers anything I would have to say about it, except for one thing: its non-Americanness.
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