RaveThe New York TimesThe characters pour forth in a Dickensian torrent. And as you’d expect from the Norwegian crime author of the moment — perhaps the crime author of the moment, period — Nesbø presents Oslo as a dwindling star that disappoints its Oslovians. The city reflects their private miseries … In a novel of elaborate, shifting father-son relationships — real and assumed — Nesbø’s most complicated characters seek redemption by spanning their private Vaterland Bridge between old and new Oslo, and their old and new selves.
