The Murder of Halland

Author(s): Pia Juul

Location(s): Denmark

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Set in Denmark, Bess is coming to terms with the death (by shooting) of her husband Halland. Why was he shot?
The chapters are short, vignettes, describing her encounters with different people who move in and out of her life, discoveries she makes along the way. The TLS describes this kind of contemporary literature as “2 hour books to be devoured in a single sitting: literary cinema for those fatigued by film”

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Just as Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose made crime fiction appear intellectual, so Pia Juul’s The Murder of Halland dismantles the rules of an entire genre.” Dagens Nyheter

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A short book that is almost like a dream, drifting through Bess’ life….

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Halland is shot whilst his wife, Bess is asleep. This is the story from her perspective of the aftermath, the people she encounters, the odd things she discovers and it has a strange dream like quality. It probably won’t...