Steven Sem-Sandberg’s The Chosen Ones (translated by Anna Paterson) is a difficult book to read. First, there is the subject matter. Even though The Chosen Ones is a novel, it is closely based on the actual history of the victims and perpetrators of Aktion T4, the Nazi euthanasia program for people ...
This was a great novel,and I would rate it on the same level as Alexander Dumas's Three Musketeers. There is intrigue, romance, and high drama.
I found this book to be quite riveting and thought provoking. Set in Denmark, it explores the relationship between four women who work at the Danish Center for Information on Genocide. When two of the women receive death threats the office is thrown into turmoil. The subject matter was quite dark...
On to Laura in Brazil---Overall, I would say watch the film (which covers book I and II) rather than read these drawn out books. I will not be searching out anything else from Guillou - he just doesn't 'do' it for me.One man's fish is another man's poisson, and all that.---Page 98 "Your name will li...