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The Wednesday Club
Kjell Westo
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Description for The Wednesday Club
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group. Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by ... Read more
1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in Helsinki's Wednesday Club. The members of this relaxed gentleman's club are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. But this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the group. Thune has recently divorced and is at something of a loss, running his law practice with no great enthusiasm. Luckily he has the assistance of an efficient new secretary, Matilda Wiik. But behind her polished exterior Mrs Wiik is tormented by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857053510
SKU
V9780857053510
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Kjell Westo
Born in 1961, Kjell Westoe lives in Helsinki. He made his literary debut in 1986, and since then has published poetry, collections of short stories, and novels. His five great novels set in Helsinki in the twentieth century have established him as a leading name among today's Swedish-language writers in Finland. His international breakthrough came in 2006 with the novel ... Read more
Reviews for The Wednesday Club
Extremely focused and tense: Westoe has turned his talent for balanced, attractive storytelling to a sharper, snappier form of crime-writing
Norrbottens Kurir
The Wednesday Club is a tense, gripping thriller ... a book one cannot put down or easily forget
Mika Provata-Carlone
Bookanista
The Nordic region's most important interpreter of the grand themes of our ... Read more
Norrbottens Kurir
The Wednesday Club is a tense, gripping thriller ... a book one cannot put down or easily forget
Mika Provata-Carlone
Bookanista
The Nordic region's most important interpreter of the grand themes of our ... Read more