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"fog storm" Johan Theorin

Johan Theorin "Öland" I was thrilled not contradict expectations, the author was, however, I have another chance. Thankfully. Because "fog storm" I was much better and have devoured the book literally.

"storm cloud" is not a typical thriller, the mystery and the investigation are in the background. Actually, the reader knows the end is not whether there ever was a murder.

The couple Katerine and Joakim Westin move from Stockholm to Öland to - they want to escape the big city, the noise and anonymity. On Öland they bought an old, large house that was once used by lighthouse keepers. Katerine, Joakim and her two children are inspired by the old house, the property and the two lighthouses and start with full vigor to renovate the building. Åludden to return back to its former glory.

pulls at the same time to Öland Tilda - she is the new police officer who is to take over the vacant position.

Theorin out a third action level one - three young men looking from standing empty summer houses and looting.

You have to wait until they are three stories with each other but it's worth it! Until that happens Theorin presents all kinds namely: describes the mourning of Joakim, leads a Swedish legend and makes Åludden and the two lighthouses near a main hero. Not to mention the atmosphere he builds up gradually - you can feel literally it's cold down your spine - creak the house, the door of the shed opens automatically, you can hear voices, there are hidden rooms discovered and the Northern Lighthouse begins to glow, a coming death predict.

This all happens in Öland winter - it is cold, bitter cold, it's windy and uncomfortable. But it will be worse if the f å k is coming - a storm that vast amounts of snow brings with it and more human victims. Theorin describes suggestive, bold, intense. The landscape is harsh and barren, the days short, the eternally creepy night long. Theorin descriptions are compared to his first novel, longer and more detail - I hope he will not come to Larsson's level - that would be a pity!

The resolution of mystery stories is also interesting - fortunately. I found it nice that Theorin ties in with his first book, for example, drops Gerlof Davidsson come back.

My Rating: 5 / 6

Johan Theorin, fog storm, translated by Keith Schöps, 447 pages, Piper.

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"doves fly to" Melinda Nadj Abonji

Ildikó Nomi lives with her sister and parents in Switzerland. The whole family has (after the residents voted positive) Swiss passports. Nevertheless, they are not nationals - neither in their souls, even in the eyes of the neighbors. They originally come from Serbia. But they are not Serbs, because they come from Vojvodina and belonging to the Hungarian minority. The girls came to Switzerland before they were enrolled in school, So they do not speak once Serbian. Ildikó - the older of the sisters is the main protagonist, tells the story by the family to try to define their identity.

Kocsis The family tries to hard work, their social position in Switzerland to work out - first from Serbia to travel from the parents with various jobs, they try as quickly as possible to create a financial basis, so their daughters can meet . Later the family opened a laundry, then a small café, to finally take on the most representative of the City Café.

go Periodically Kocsis to Vojvodina. Each visit is expected restless and accompanied by a great question - hopefully nothing has changed in the old country! The girls love the country of her childhood, the warm embrace of her grandmother (Mamika), and the large family, the farm and all animals. They also feel Vojvodina as their home, the land of eternal bliss.

disintegrates over the years, the ideal image is always more - the death of Tito, the conversations of her father and uncle about politics, which always end in the alcohol intoxication, the memories of Mamika on in the camp of his grandfather, the persecution and finally the outbreak of the Balkan war shaking the idyllic notions of the girls.

The Balkan conflict is shown only from the international perspective - it lacks details of military operations, but the author tries to represent the sentiments of expatriate Yugoslavs. Every Swiss is the Balkans experts - is to listen and at the same time putting on the polite, indifferent smile of a waitress for Ildikó obnoxious.

life between two worlds, the confrontation with the refugees, the search for his identity and the growing rebellion against the parents, to accept any of the xenophobic attacks oppress, Ildikó. More it is aware of it, that the study of international history and the perfect mastery of the language is far from enough to feel at home in Switzerland and accepted by the Swiss to be. At the same time she realizes that she can use this fact to their advantage.

"flying pigeons" In Abonji describes not only the difficult process of adaptation and integration but also the gradual separation from parents.

Not only the content of the novel can inspire, the language offers. Long, multi-compound sentences, however, lose nothing at ease are the greatest strength of the prose of Abonji. She manages simultaneously refined to write and to create an illusion that one listens to a conversation two friends. Abonjis prose has its own tune and excited with intelligent wit.

My Rating: 5 / 6

Melinda Nadj Abonji, pigeons fly, 315 pages, the young and young