(…) This icy and affecting novel, with its juxtaposition of people trying to do good and yet behaving very badly toward each other, can certainly be read in many ways, but always with the vague unease that the privileged residents of Western liberal democracies feel about their comfortable lives." - Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker (…) Jungersen, who is forty-five, stakes out a path all his own on his way to revealing the secrets that these odd women harbor. (…) I cannot think of anything quite like it. "Jungersen is never very subtle about the parallels he sees between the center and the focus of its work.(.)īut most of all, one comes away feeling there is a hugely empathetic imagination behind this novel, one that resists allowing us to fall into the simplifying judgments that are a necessary prelude to cruelty." - Marcel Theroux, The New York Times Book Review Even at their least sympathetic, they win our empathy. All of the characters have deeply realized back stories, ambitions and pains. (…) By shifting points of view, the book is able to whip up your indignation about the cruelties inflicted by one character on another, then take you inside the perpetrator’s wounded soul so that you feel almost incapable of condemnation. Demonizing someone is a necessary first step to persecuting him. (…) While it is the task of a thriller’s hero to unmask and resist a villain, the very act of identifying evil is fraught with peril. Moving between the vast historical landscape on which genocide occurs and the claustrophobic surroundings of the office, it suggests how little we know about our own natures. " The Exception is a novel of big ideas assembled with patient thoroughness.(…) Perhaps Danes just have longer attention spans, but better pacing and turns of phrase might have gone a long way." - New York "Although the action (if not the style) of this 500-page doorstop eventually picks up - and ends with a devastating twist - not a detail is left out along the way.Thanks to Christian Jungersen for that and congratulations for making these fundamental questions into such a horribly vivid and fiendishly clever novel." - Carole Angier, The Independent "If it weren't for the eponymous exception, and the sense that the guilty hate their own evil, we would despair.His brisk style, well rendered in Anna Paterson's fine translation, generally keeps the story moving along." - The Economist Mr Jungersen is good on the bizarre international "genocide industry" with its swish seminars, showpiece survivors and squabbling professors.
"Mr Jungersen steadily cranks up the tension (.) Although it may be too long, the plaudits are deserved.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : fairly solid, drawn-out workplace thrillerĪ variety of small criticisms (especially re. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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