The Exception is another fiction gem I discovered in 2012. It is truly a powerful and terrific story. I hope everyone will read it. I hope to see more works from the author in future.
"The Exception is an interesting novel with quite unexpected pace and a great deal to tell us about the psychological games we play with other people and with ourselves" - Times Literary Supplement
Paperback: Office politics can be deadly.
Four women work at the Danish Centre of Genocide Information. When two of them start receiving death threats, they suspect they are being stalked by a Serbian torturer and war criminal. But perhaps he is not the person behind the threats - it could be someone in their very midst.
As the tension amongst the women builds, they begin to turn on each other and discover that none of them is exactly the person they seem to be.
An obsession with tracking down the killer turns into a witchhunt as the women resort to bullying and victimisation. And the brutality which the women have described from a safe distance is now revealed in their own world.
About the author: Christian Jungersen's first novel, Krat (The Thicket) (1999) - not published in English yet -, won the Danish Best First Novel of the Year Award. The Exception (2006), his second novel, won the Danish Golden Laurels prize, and has been a huge bestseller across Europe as well as an international bestseller. He lives in Dublin, Ireland and New York and is currently at work on his third novel.
Check out Christian Jungersen's website here.
The Exception is translated from the Danish into the English by Anna Paterson.
Rating: 5/5
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