The Jealousy Man: From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Harry Hole series

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Some of the stories are long and wordy; if you're familiar with the author, you won't be surprised. I wasn't. I straighten the liquorice wrapper between my fingers. ‘Lakris – lakrits – lakrids’ it says. Danish and Swedish as well as Norwegian. Easy to understand anyway. It’s good when neighbours speak almost the same language. OK. So that wasn’t exactly true. I was jealous of Henrik Bakke. At least the first time I met him. Let me explain. One day he called me at my office and asked if we could meet, he had some papers for me from Simone. I knew these must be the divorce papers, and even though it was, of course, unspeakable of her to use her new lover to deliver them I was curious to know who he was and so I agreed to a meeting at a restaurant. I presume he was just as curious about me. I put down my coffee cup and take a Twist from the dish of chocolates. Coconut. Not my favourite, but perfectly acceptable.

The Jealousy Man: From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling

It’s just an inventory I’ve made. Don’t let your feelings get in the way of common sense now, Arne. Try to see this as a controlled liquidation.’ I can feel the springs beneath the sofa cover against my thighs. An old rococo sofa, her style. Had he had her on this sofa, her new guy, the architect? He moved in just a few weeks after I moved out. For all I know he was screwing her on the sofa while I was still living in the house. The officer doesn’t ask me to explain what I mean when I say I know what they’re thinking, so I go ahead on my own initiative: Prve dvije priče ovdje ostavile su na mene možda nešto slabiji dojam, ali zato je ostatak zb It's not a bad book but it was very tiring. There were lots and lots of paragraphs with so much going on. From the two sections, I liked the first, the second made me a bit dazed. The power wasn't my cup of tea. I’m a huge fan of Jo Nesbo and Knopf publishing for their amazing mysteries in the most chilling settings! The Jealousy man is a collection of short stories which are just as good as his series and stand alone books! These stories are centered around power and jealousy and what they do to people. There is a pretty wide variation of stories, some I loved and some I didn’t. Regardless they were full of clever twists and unlikable characters that really made you ask yourself some questions.And yet I’ve never been jealous of Henrik Bakke. Isn’t that funny? At least not in the sense of hating him or having a grudge against him. I think the way I looked at it was that he was just another guy same as me, he loved Simone more than anything else on earth. I actually thought of him more as someone in the same boat as me than as a rival.’ On paper the money was hers, but it was her father who pulled the strings. The insistence on a prenup when we got married was, of course, his idea. He probably saw it all, how she’d soon grow out of her longhaired young photographer with his lofty dreams and his ‘artistic ambitions’. My brain at once conjured up a picture of a married couple in their thirties. He earned the money, a lot of money, and you got to choose the bedlinen. Our brains are expert at formulating stereotypes. Now and then they’re wrong. Now and then they’re right. Kudos, Mr. Nesbø, for a great collection. While I am eager to see more Harry Hole, I enjoyed this piece quite a bit.

THE JEALOUSY MAN | Kirkus Reviews

La prima raccolta di racconti firmata da Jo Nesbo è ricca di spunti e personaggi bizzarri. Almeno quattro racconti (i primi due e gli ultimi due) valgono la lettura affiancate da altre storie più brevi, come flash.The stories were read by a variety of narrators, several of whom I was already familiar with. All performances were excellent. Simon Vance (one of my all-time favorite narrators) read London, the opening tale that was truly captivating and held my attention, and Odd. Quotes from London: "then you smiled, just a tiny wavelet on a slushy puddle," and René "Girard's [mimetic] theory is that beyond satisfying our basic needs we don't know what it is we want, so we mimic our surroundings, we value what other people value..."