Red Milk
€11.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781529355925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sjon |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.110 |
| Publishing Date | 03/02/2022 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €11.23 |
| Tax | €0.67 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €11.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY''S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
''A book like a blade of light, searching out and illuminating the darkest corners of history . . . It''s vivid, unputdownable, alive, and written with unerring artfulness and subtlety.'' Neel Mukherjee
Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavík during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring brother and son, at nineteen he seems set to lead a conventional life. Yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party with ties to a burgeoning international network of neo-Nazis - a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.
In this striking novel, inspired by one of the ringleaders of an Icelandic neo-Nazi group formed in the late 1950s, Sjón masterfully constructs the portrait of an ordinary young man who becomes a right-wing zealot. Exposing the roots of the far-right movements of today, Red Milk is a timely reminder that the seeds of extremism can be hard to detect and the allure of fascism remains dangerously potent.