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    Moja walka
    Police
    We, The Drowned
    The Redbreast
    The Son
    The Snowman
    • Moja walka

      Powieść 3.

      • 564 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Norwegia, początek lat 70. Czteroosobowa rodzina - matka, ojciec i dwóch chłopców - przenosi się na południe kraju. Nowy dom, nowe otoczenie. Dzieci są małe, a rodzice młodzi, życie stoi przed nimi otworem. Do czasu. W pewnym momencie ich przyszłość zostaje określona z góry. Kto lub co wyznacza ich drogę? Moja walka. Księga 3. to książka, w której Karl Ove Knausgard powraca do czasów dzieciństwa. Okresu, w którym sukcesy dają najwięcej satysfakcji, porażki bolą najdotkliwiej, a każda próba odpowiedzi na pytanie 'kim jestem?' nie daje wystraczającej satysfakcji. Dla autora i głównego bohatera to czas przeplatania się codziennej beztroski z przerażającym lękiem. Matczynej miłości z okrucieństwem ojca. Po tym jak w pierwszej części Karl Ove szokował naturalistycznym spojrzeniem na alkoholizm i śmierć, a w drugim tomie z bezwzględną szczerością pisał o ojcostwie i małżeństwie, Knausgard zachwyca po raz trzeci.

      Moja walka2015
      4.0
    • Moja walka

      Powieść 1.

      • 550 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Moja walka — precyzyjna, wciągająca i bardzo mocna. Autobiograficzna powieść, w której rzeczywistość przeraża bardziej niż najmroczniejsze skandynawskie kryminały. Wszystko zaczęło się w Malmö, nocą 27 lutego 2008 roku, gdy trzydziestodziewięcioletni Karl Ove Knausgård rozpoczął analizę swojego życia. Po publikacji pierwszego tomu Mojej walki świat czytelniczy wstrzymał oddech… Autobiograficzna książka — opisująca intymne życie rodzinne i najbliższych — wzbudziła tak ogromne zainteresowanie i wywołała taki skandal, że wiele norweskich firm wywieszało oficjalne tablice zakazujące rozmawiania na temat tej powieści w pracy. Prawa do wydania Mojej walki zakupiło dziewiętnaście krajów, a krytyka światowa uznała ją za arcydzieło.

      Moja walka2014
      4.0
    • The Snowman

      • 550 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf.

      The Snowman2014
      4.5
    • The Son

      • 648 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge.  Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed, and all of them under the thumb of Oslo's crime overlord, the Twin. When Sonny learns some long-hidden truths about his father he makes a brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the hideous crimes he's paid for. But he's also being hunted, by the Twin, the cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking. The question is, what will he do when they've cornered him?

      The Son2014
      4.5
    • Police

      • 518 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone. Least of all himself.

      Police2013
      4.2
    • One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range.Harry Hole and his team have little t

      The Redeemer2013
      4.0
    • Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.

      The Bat2012
      3.5
    • Devil's Star, The

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Set against the backdrop of a sweltering Oslo summer, the story unfolds with the murder of a young woman, marked by a severed finger and a mysterious red diamond pentagram. Detective Harry Hole, struggling with alcoholism and distrust towards his colleague Tom Waaler, finds himself reluctantly partnered with him. As they investigate the case, Harry grapples with his suspicions about Tom's involvement in arms smuggling and the death of his partner, all while trying to maintain his precarious position in the police force.

      Devil's Star, The2012
      4.1
    • The thrilling sequel to Jo Nesbo's debut novel, The Bat, The Cockroaches sees Harry Hole sent to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Norwegian ambassador. Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes and very few people willing to talk. When Harry lays hands on some CCTV footage that will help him unravel what happened that night, things only get more complicated. The man who gave him the tape goes missing, and Harry realises that failing to solve a murder case is by no means the only danger in Bangkok

      Cockroaches2011
      3.8
    • Harry Hole, drunkard, loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to surveillance after a high profile mistake. He's bored by his new job until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest because of its possible links to Neo Nazi activity. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next Harry's former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night her head was smashed in? The investigation leads Harry to suspect that the crimes have their roots in the battlefields of Eastern Front during WWII. In a quest that takes him to South Africa and Vienna, Harry finds himself perpetually one step behind the killer. He will be both winner and loser by the novel's nail-biting conclusion. The Redbreast. He's your judge, jury and executioner... And he must be stopped

      The Redbreast2010
      4.3