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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

That hasn't been my experience. Mostly Nobel winners novels tend to pacifist political stands - so horrors of war, oppression, torture seem to abound so I guess there might be a tendency to that sort of heavy handedness. Still, the Nobel is usually awarded for a body of works and not a single book - so you may have just picked up one of the authors' sucky books - or maybe just a poor translation.

It could very well be. It seemed like this was one of his more popular at least since I saw it prominently displayed even though it's over a decade old. Of course, popular doesn't always mean good.

I picked it up 'cause the plot sounded like a Steven King plot so I was curious how someone else would handle it. The premise is keeping my attention so far, but it seems to be using that horrors of war, oppression, torture heavy handedness for a Steven King plot.

Or it's a bad translation.