Christian Jungersen The Exception: A Novel Genocide COPENHANGEN Hardcover 1stED

Description: Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping. We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. The Exception: A Novel Hardcover, July 10, 2007 by Christian Jungersen (Author) An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, the Serbian torturer and war criminal they recently profiled in their articles. Yet as tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. The threats increase, and soon the office becomes a battlefield in which each of the women's move is suspect. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The slow burn of office politics can be just as riveting as international intrigue, as shown in Jungersen's second novel, his first to be translated into English. Iben, Malene and Camilla work in Copenhagen for the Danish Center for Information on Genocide. Even before Iben and Malene receive death threats with Nazi overtones, the three friends had been ostracizing the new librarian, Anne-Lise. Though evidence suggests Serbian war criminal Mirko Zigic has been sending the death threats, the paranoia and fear of the three friends converge to make Anne-Lise the target of rising suspicion. Victimizing is part of human nature, Anne-Lise's doctor tells her when she seeks advice, and the novel hauntingly pursues this idea to its deepest implications. Can people fighting genocide display the same traits as war criminals? What does it mean to be evil? Jungersen (Thickets) explores these questions and others on a very personal level. A complex understanding of people turns what could have been pace-slowing conversations and reproductions of essays on genocide into fuel for a sometimes cruel but always intense page-turner. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Four women--researchers Iben and Malene, librarian Anne-Lise, and secretary Camilla--work in a small office at the Danish Centre for Genocide Information. When Iben and Malene begin receiving threatening e-mails, they immediately suspect that the death messages are the work of Mirko Zigic, a Serbian war criminal whom they've both written about. But they gradually come to believe that one of their coworkers is responsible, prompting them to begin a campaign of harassment and bullying that turns their office into a mirror image of the appalling behavior they analyze on a daily basis. As the backstabbing escalates and alliances shift, the four women show far different reactions to pressure, variously exhibiting bravery, bravado, and submissiveness. Interspersing the narrative with factual reports on the psychology of evil that spawned concentration camps in Germany and genocide in Bosnia, and shifting the point of view among the four women (one of whom may be an unreliable narrator), Jungersen steadily builds up both tension and paranoia. A best-seller in Europe, this thought-provoking page-turner offers a unique spin on office politics. Joanne Wilkinson Hardcover: 512 pages Publisher: Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition (July 10, 2007) Language: English CONDITION LIKE NEW HARDCOVER First Edition 2006 2nd printing by Doubleday, 504 pages hardcover w dust jacket. Book in close to new condition. Interior clean, no markings odor or animal hairs, faint scuffing of jacket. ABOUT US: 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price. 2.1 We offer combined shipping for one low shipping charge. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE GREAT Books on Politics, Business, Art and HISTORY Please click the link below for all items for sale: PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR Great Collectible AUDIO CDs, Vintage 78 rpm Records and Turntable/ Phonograph Items Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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