{"product_id":"norwegian-by-night-isbn-9780544292666","title":"Norwegian By Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this winner of the Crime Writerss Association John Creasey Dagger Award and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway—a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them an unlikely hero and former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHome alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As this man on the run and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, this suspense novel weaves past and present together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Crime Novel of the Year, and an Indie Next Selection. You can find the coming-of-age story of Sheldon Horowitz in \u003ci\u003eHow To Find Your Way in the Dark.\u003c\/i\u003e Additionally, this compelling crime thriller is the first novel in which Sigrid Ødegård appears. You can follow her to her next case in \u003ci\u003eAmerican by Day.\u003c\/i\u003e | \u003cp\u003eBest New Crime Writer of the Year: Winner of the CWA 2013 John Creasey Dagger Award   \"Has the brains of a literary novel and the body of a thriller.\"  — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003e   \"Derek B. Miller’s \u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night \u003c\/em\u003eis one of those books that completely transcends its genre and offers us one of the most memorable characters — Sheldon Horowitz — that I’ve encountered in years.  If you like those other Scandihoovian thriller writers, this is your book.\"  —Richard Russo for \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e   \"Truly a page-turner...\u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night\u003c\/em\u003e is about past wars and present-day ethnic strife, family, grief, guilt and, ultimately, redemption. Korea (and phantom Koreans), Vietnam, the Holocaust, ethnic identity — Serb, Norwegian, Muslim, and yes, Jewish — these are the true characters of the novel....Funny, moving and thoroughly gripping.\"  —\u003cem\u003eJewish Week \u003c\/em\u003e   \"A stunning examination of how our lives shape our character, and how our allegiances shape our destiny.\"  — Bethanne Patrick, \u003cem\u003eAARP\u003c\/em\u003e (1 of \"12 Summer Reads for 2013\")   \"Derek B. Miller's debut novel, \u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night\u003c\/em\u003e, is about aging snipers. Or, it's about parenting and loss. Or, the lingering traces of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. It feels about as full as life itself, and almost as real.\"  —Jessica Young, Jewniverse   \"[A] beautifully-written contribution to Nordic noir with a twist. It cleverly avoids many the genre’s clichés and pitfalls and emerges triumphant as a fully-dimensional gem.\"  —From the John Creasey Dagger Award Judges' Citation   \"Both \u003cstrong\u003ean exciting chase thriller and a poignant story\u003c\/strong\u003e about a man who comes into his own again in his dotage.\"  --\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003e\"No brief plot outline can do justice to a book that deserves to find a place on a few best-of-the-year lists\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eSheldon is a brilliantly imagined character, a true mensch, made of Greatest Generation stuff\u003c\/strong\u003e...\u003cstrong\u003eMiller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesbø, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"  --\u003cem\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/em\u003e starred  \"Miller's \u003cstrong\u003eaffecting debut\u003c\/strong\u003e, about a cantankerous Jewish widower transplanted to Norway who becomes party to a hate crime, is \u003cstrong\u003ean unusual hybrid: part memory novel, part police procedural, part sociopolitical tract and part existential meditation\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eMiller, an American living in Oslo...makes the setting a powerful character...\u003c\/strong\u003eThe novel, first published in Norway, was \u003cstrong\u003eworth the wait.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e  --\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e  \"\u003cstrong\u003eA literate, thoughtful and unusual thriller...\u003c\/strong\u003eOur image of Scandinavia is one of tolerance — Miller doesn’t disagree with the image, but \u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night\u003c\/em\u003e offers \u003cstrong\u003ea fascinating fictional exploration\u003c\/strong\u003e of the meaning and implementation of that tolerance.\"  --\u003cem\u003eThe Times (UK)\u003c\/em\u003e  \"\u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night\u003c\/em\u003e has all the ingredients of a top-notch thriller, but it's the superb characterisation of the protagonist that fuels true suspense. Funny and moving as well as thoroughly gripping, this is crime fiction of the highest order.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Much more than an enjoyable thriller. It is a beautifully written tale of love and loss...One of the best novels of the year.\"—Jenni Frazer, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e (UK) \u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003e\"This highly visual storytelling reads like a first draft of the script for an action-packed, emotionally satisfying movie, one that will appeal to both sexes.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e  \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorwegian by \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eNight'sn ot just a great title, it's also\u003cstrong\u003e a soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilderness and you just might make peace with your god, your ghosts, and yourself. -- \u003c\/strong\u003eGary Shteyngart, author of \u003cem\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Brilliant, serious literary crime and our favorite thing, Scandi-noir, but with a twist...\" - \u003cstrong\u003eErica Wagner, \u003cem\u003eThe Times \u003c\/em\u003e'100 people to watch in 2013' (UK)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \"NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT is \u003cstrong\u003ean outrageously intelligent thriller\u003c\/strong\u003e, and its philosopher-sniper hero, Sheldon Horowitz, is a character who'll stay in your brain for decades. \u003cstrong\u003eYou might come for the guns and the ruckus, but by the last page, with your heart still pounding, you'll be crying at all the goddamned beauty and love in the world\u003c\/strong\u003e.\" - Patrick Somerville, author of \u003cem\u003eThis Bright River\u003c\/em\u003e  and \u003cem\u003eThe Cradle \u003c\/em\u003e  \"\u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night\u003c\/em\u003e shifts along like an inquisitive wind, with characters who enter your mind so easily it’s as if they’ve been there all along, and a voice so confident you would follow it into a leaning house. Generous with its wit, dazzling in its cultural and historical reach, Derek Miller’s novel is the kind of sweep-you-up tale a reader always wants but rarely finds, the kind where you stand in the bookstore reading the opening pages and whisper, \u003cem\u003eThis is the one\u003c\/em\u003e.\"—Leif Enger, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003ePeace Like a River\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Have you ever lucked into one of those novels so taut and suspenseful that you can't turn the pages fast enough, yet, at the same time, so magnificently written and psychologically incisive that you find yourself unable to turn those same pages \u003cem\u003eslowly\u003c\/em\u003e enough? Such novels are as rare as great comets. \u003cem\u003eNorwegian by Night\u003c\/em\u003e, I'm happy to report, is one. Make sure you're in a comfortable spot when cracking this book; you won't be putting it down for an obscenely long while.\"—Jonathan Miles, author of \u003cem\u003eDear American Airlines\u003c\/em\u003e  \"Humane, blackly funny, heartbreaking, full of believable people and with a touching, magnificent hero in Sheldon, this is one of the best books I’ve read this year. Verdict: Brilliant.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eHerald Sun \u003c\/em\u003e(Australia)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \"\u003cem\u003eNorwegian By Night\u003c\/em\u003e [is] ostensibly a Scandinavian thriller yet recalls Saul Bellow and Philip Roth’s more cerebral creations…A remarkably confident debut that is at once a rich psychological study, a political ­parable that seems to be about America’s compulsion to intervene abroad, and a moving story of an old man’s last chance to slay his demons\u003cstrong\u003e.\"—John Dydale, \u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e (UK)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \"A stunningly good debut thriller, subtle and moving, with a truly original hero…Literate, elegant and compelling.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eMarcel Berlins, \u003cem\u003eThe Times \u003c\/em\u003e(UK)\u003c\/strong\u003e  \"From the synopsis, it is impossible to harness all the themes and subtlety of prose that this book conveys to the reader. On one level, not only does the book contain all the quintessential elements of a Scandinavian crime novel, it also encompasses the Korean, Vietnam, and Balkan conflicts, and on a more emotional level, presents a poignant and meditative examination of aging and regret…I would urge everyone to read this exceptional debut, with its powerful and emotive themes…[as well as] all the tension of a totally authentic Scandinavian crime thriller. I cannot praise it highly enough, and \u003cem\u003eNorwegian By Night\u003c\/em\u003e could well be one of my top crime reads of the year. 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