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The Exception

Name: The Exception
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Author: Christian Jungersen
ISBN: 9781400096657

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Published on Jul 08, 2008 | 512 Pages

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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.

“Excellent on so many things. . . . There is a hugely empathetic imagination behind this novel.”
—The New York Times

“Provocative. . . . Jungersen’s sharp, disturbing book reminds us that evil is everywhere, and while you can track it down, you can’t stamp it out. Especially if it lives within you.”
—The Plain-Dealer

“Extraordinary. . . . Aside from being a suspenseful page-turner, The Exception challenges our complacency and self-regard at every turn. . . . The personal has never seemed more political.”
—The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Plenty of books promise to change their readers’ lives. Few succeed. Christian Jungersen’s The Exception is truly an exception. . . . A highly original psychological thriller.”
—The Economist

Author

Christian Jungersen

Christian Jungersen’s first novel, Undergrowth, won the Best First Novel Award in Denmark in 1999 and became a bestseller. His next novel, The Exception, won two of Denmark’s highest literary awards, remained on the bestseller list there for nearly two years, and has been published in twenty countries. He lives in Malta.

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