“A brave book by a brave writer,”
“Jack Hilden to view Johan Heltnes new roman”
“Johan Heltne has a way of writing that makes everything load. He showed it in his debut five years ago, There is nothing to be afraid of. Then it was Jonathan who was a member of word of Life, his infatuation with Nina, and the shame that these two components contributed to the. The charge evoked by a detail in the language, the scenes had to linger, and not least the unusual substance with a inifrånskildring of how frikyrkoförsamlingen seemed for a young man.”
“Very recognizable in the Emil. Here is also a discomfort from the first page, a wobbly threat weighed down by literature. The novel speaks from the three timelines. The earliest in Uppsala, sweden during the early 2000’s, and where is the origin. In studentstadens alkoholdimmor and gräsrök commits the protagonist to a rape. There is much to suggest at least at. Fredrik (Emil is the name he changes to) claim to not remember. When the police come knocking on the door, he is unsympathetic, and the reader is forced to empathise with how such a process affects the wrongly accused. He was found guilty of rape, but cleared later.”
“in other timelines deals with what happens afterwards. Emil is in the Canary islands and takes care of his grandmother. Hit a woman on the island, Heidi, and they embark on a somewhat unclear relationship despite the fact that the real girlfriend waiting at home, calling the troubled conversation and wondering how he’s doing.”
“You hear, there is quite a lot to fit in this story, and at times is the slightly confusing and cluttered. The touches, sometimes also at the clichés, even if Heltne is sufficiently linguistically proficient in order to avoid them. There are a so serious pathos, the author insists on their genuineness and it is very infectious.”
“the Period in Tenerife, however, have an annoying Lost in translation-shimmer, and I can already feel a fatigue in the face of the Don Draper-esque character who Emil is. He who never need to talk or open up, but the beautiful girls are hanging for anyway, because he has ”it”.”
“You have never had to make an effort you. It is enough with your fine white teeth and the cute ring in the snibben”, he may, for example, hear and there is something in it. He remains somewhat faceless, but considering what he escapes from, it is not gratuitous.”
“nBegick Fredrik rape? Some definitive answers are not given, even if the end is pointing in one direction. But it is also not such a kind of story that Heltne writing. The novel is about to live with his guilt. In this way, is realized near the onset. This also applies to the complex approach to sexuality. ”Train every day, it is a rule. Eight hours of sleep is another. No alcohol, no cigarettes. No porn,” says Emil and demonstrates its självpålagda punishment after the prison.”
“the Debt will be more complicated than skyldigu002Finte required. Emil’s own doubts about what really happened the night that he can curse himself and not be free. He feels that neither society forgiven him, from the family to the court.”
“Bruce Springsteen let Straight time is all right if someone who had previously been incarcerated, and I think of the line ”Mary’s smiling but she’s watching me out of the corner of her eye”. That neither the reader or Emil knows exactly what happened becomes an asset in the story. In the interrogation sit next to the cops and Emil.”
“you end complicated the picture further. Where confronted Emil for the first time with Caroline, then the court, where she in detail described the violent assault. It is a meeting which, despite its unusual character still has high recognition in how different two people can experience a situation they had been in together.”
“In the novel, told from Emil’s point of view, Caroline had thus far been a pretty cool and manipulative character, who avoids responding on the call, but when she is full and wants to have sex. But suddenly she looks into his eyes and reminds: you do not Remember yourself, how you never left me alone?”
“Heltne dare to stand in the uncertainty, particularly given the subject matter, the novel proceeds. It is a brave book, written by a brave author.”
