Doomsday
15 hrs. 15 min.
Kurt Aust is a Dane currently living in Norway and writing in Norwegian; he became famous right away when he published his first novel — “Judgment Day” (1999). The author received the “Best Debut” prize from Aschehoug, and the book was translated into several European languages and published in Germany, Denmark, Greece, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic.
An almost canonical medieval-novel plot brings to mind Umberto Eco. In a closed space — a roadside inn cut off from the world by a snowstorm — several travelers found shelter on the eve of New Year’s. Among them are the Danish professor Thomas Bubbergh and his student, the Norwegian Petter Hortten. It is exactly them — these are Aust’s favorite characters, who later will appear many times in his books — who must unravel the mystery of a terrible crime: shortly before their arrival at the farmstead, a French count was murdered...
An almost canonical medieval-novel plot brings to mind Umberto Eco. In a closed space — a roadside inn cut off from the world by a snowstorm — several travelers found shelter on the eve of New Year’s. Among them are the Danish professor Thomas Bubbergh and his student, the Norwegian Petter Hortten. It is exactly them — these are Aust’s favorite characters, who later will appear many times in his books — who must unravel the mystery of a terrible crime: shortly before their arrival at the farmstead, a French count was murdered...
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