Martin Edwards also wrote about this article and topic, a few days previously, and an interesting discussion ensued. I wrote a post here about it, to which several people kindly responded. In that article, Jessica wrote that she was no longer going to review books that contained 'outpourings of sadistic misogyny'. NEXT POST More about violence in crime fiction I wasn't intending to write a blog post about the endless rehashing over the past week of an article written by Jessica Mann in Standpoint magazine at the beginning of September. Q&A with the author and other reviews at Amazon (US site). Review of The Unit at The Complete Review. The book is published by the Other Press, New York, and the translation was supported by a grant from the Swedish Arts Council. Instead I just obediently allowed myself to be picked up at the agreed time outside my house. I thought about hanging myself or jumping in front of a speeding train or doing a U-turn on the highway and driving toward the oncoming traffic at full speed.

You should have sorted that out beforehand, if you were thinking along those lines.

It was not the intention that those who lived here should be able to take their own lives or harm themselves in some other way. And of course nothing less was to be expected. This meticulous surveillance applied not only to the private apartments, but also to the communal areas. There were no fewer than three cameras within that small space, two on the ceiling and one underneath the washbasin. I will, however, reproduce a short passage from the opening page:Įven the bathroom was monitored. It is an appealing mix of both, written with an effortless style (I am sure, due in no small part to the faultless translation) that just keeps you reading.Īssuming the book could be classified as crime fiction, I'll write a review and submit it to Euro Crime, so will not say more about the book here. I've read good things about this book on various blogs, and on Amazon, so I was quite keen to try it, even though I was not sure if it was going to be science fiction or crime fiction. I am totally absorbed in The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, which has very kindly been sent to me by the translator, Marlaine Delargy.

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