What the Glacier Keeps Silent About

What could be calmer than the lifeless white-blue expanses of the Arctic desert? But the Norwegian crime novel by Thor Evgen Svånes won’t just change those ideas—it will shatter them and absorb you completely. It would be more accurate to call this work a psychological thriller, which is exactly what it is. Short, dynamic chapters subtly convey the complex conflict unfolding in the enclosed space of a seal-hunting vessel between a girl—an inspector of the Fisheries Office—and the crew. The conflict escalates into real moral terror, and then into physical violence…