Arctic Chill

Reykjavik police detective Erlendur Sveinsson and his team investigate the murder of a dark-skinned Asian boy, found frozen in his own blood one midwinter day outside a rundown apartment block. The author imbues the self-doubting Erlendur with enormous depth, as an insecure father unable to show his love for his errant son and daughter as well as a troubled professional who’s made pain his constant companion. Indridason also lays bare the plight of Thai women brought to Iceland, married and soon divorced by Icelanders, left to raise their children alone in a culture, a climate and a language they don’t understand. On top of this national tragedy is the universal problem of bored, unsupervised youth, raised with no respect for authority and awash in fast food, rock music and violent computer games. Indridason has produced a stunning indictment of contemporary society.

Author: Indridason Arnaldur
ISBN: 9781846550652
Year of publication: 2008
Collection: Detective Erlendur
Translator: Scudder Bernard
Genre: Detective
Number of pages: 288
Reading time: 4 h. 48 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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