Nesbo talks about his standalone, The Headhunters (2011), which won The Norwegian Book Club Prize for Best Novel of the Year 2008. It is translated from the Norwegian into the English by Don Bartlett:
The Headhunters the movie, produced by Yellow Bird, was premiered in Oslo in August 2011 and will be shown for the first time in the UK on 6 April 2012. Here is the trailer:
I went to watch the movie yesterday afternoon. In most book-movie genres, the movie almost always fails the book and that is why I usually steer away from book-based movies. However, I am pleasantly surprised that in The Headhunters, the movie played out exactly as the book was written. Probably for the first time in my movie-watching life, the movie is actually better than the book. I originally gave the book a rating of 4/5 just because it is a Jo Nesbo book but for the movie, it is a quick decision of 5/5 - great acting, great cast, great direction and what an ingenious plot altogether. I was greatly entertained and would watch the movie many times over. I highly recommend the movie to anyone who is a Nesbo fan and love watching films especially foreign films. I believe foreign films should be shown in their respective native languages and not be dubbed. Of course, don't forget to pick up the book and read it too. It was a worthwhile afternoon in the movies. Thank you, Jo Nesbo.
Visit Jo Nesbo's official website for more information.
For fans of the Harry Hole series, Phantom (book 9) is out in March 2012.
A book review by The Independent.
P/S Nesbo also quoted a book in The Headhunters called The Fourth Night Watch (1923) by Johan Falkberget (1879-1967) which, when I googled, found that it is a historical novel set in the first half of the nineteenth century about a priest who is sent into a small mining town in Norway to take over the ministry. In the beginning, he is not accustomed to its people and the small-town mentality and very much long for a post elsewhere but eventually, his attitude and conscience take over his initial hatred on the small community. The Fourth Night Watch is Johan Falkberget's breakthrough work. Currently unavailable in the UK but I will keep a lookout for it. It was translated from the Norwegian into the English by Ronald G Popperwell in 1966.
Rating: 5/5
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