The Hurricane Party

In Hurricane Party Klas östergren has woven a story of mythic and magnificent scope, drawn from the past and set in a dystopian future.Hanck Orn's son is dead. A heart attack, they tell him, but he knows they are lying. He travels to the archipelago at the outermost reaches of the land to find out what really happened, and is told how his son died in the great hall of the Norse gods, dealt a deadly blow by the mischievous shapeshifter Loki. Moving from the golden halls to the depths of the underworld, it tells the timeless story of a man searching for justice in a world on the brink. Hurricane Party is another tale in the International Myths Series. Klas östergren was born in Stockholm in 1955 and is the author of several novels including the landmark Gentlemen (1981) and its sequel, Gangsters (2005). A leading star of Swedish literature for nearly three decades, he has won the Piratenpriset and the...