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North by night book summary1/31/2024 Sheldon is an arm’s length from his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, who is just now taking a long pull on his own beer and is looking so cheerful, so kind, so peppy, that Sheldon wants to take the hot dog from his hand and insert it up his nose. Sheldon will not admit it to Rhea and Lars-never, of course not-but he can’t help wondering what he’s doing here and what he’s going to do about it before the wonderment passes. His feet twitch back and forth like a schoolboy’s, but they twitch slower now at the age of eighty-two. With his right index finger, he’s playing with the condensation on a bottle of beer that he started to drink but lost interest in some time ago. There is a half-eaten karbonade sandwich that he doesn’t like on the paper plate cradled in his lap. Sheldon Horowitz sits on a folding director’s chair, high above the picnic and out of reach of the food, in a shaded enclave in Oslo’s Frogner Park. Norwegian by Night introduces an ensemble of unforgettable characters-Sheldon and the boy, Rhea and Lars, a Balkan war criminal named Enver, and Sigrid and Petter, the brilliantly dry-witted investigating officers-as they chase one another, and their own demons, through the wilderness at the end of the world. As Sheldon and the boy look for a haven in an alien world, reality and fantasy, past and present, weave together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth. He is haunted by dreams of his son Saul’s life and by guilt over his death. But old age and circumstances are altering Sheldon’s experience of time and memory. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor’s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. ![]() Sheldon 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 a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman, who failed his only son by sending him to Vietnam to die. ![]() An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEARĪ GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEARĪ KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARĪ luminous novel, a police thriller, and the funniest book about war crimes and dementia you are likely to read
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