The Heart Keeper
The Heart Keeper is a 2019 Nordic noir psychological novel by Norwegian author Alex Dahl. It was published in English in 2019 by Berkley Books, a Penguin Random House imprint.[1] Set in Norway, it tells the story of the loss of a child through the eyes of two different women.[2][3] Critic Paul Burke described it as "a powerful study of grief and loss, guilt, recriminations, trauma and PTSD, and survival."[4] Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet described Dahl in 2019 as a new star of Nordic noir literature.[5]
Author | Alex Dahl |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Nordic noir psychological novel |
Publisher | Berkley Books (Penguin Random House) |
Publication date | 2019 |
Media type | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780451491817 |
Background
Dahl attributes the inspiration for The Heart Keeper to "an incident years ago when the life of her first child was saved by the neo-natal care unit at Ullevål University Hospital."[4]
gollark: "When is it alive" is the wrong question.
gollark: I don't think life has much of a technical definition, but *gametes* are alive and so is a newly fertilized embryo.
gollark: "Life" is kind of equivocation-y.
gollark: We see stuff like mistreating animals as generally bad and to be avoided if possible, but not absolutely disallowed regardless of reason.
gollark: This seems weird. It isn't as if all acts are either perfectly fine or proscribed.
References
- The Heart Keeper, Penguin Random House
- Ray Palen, Book Review: The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl, Criminal Element, 8 August 2019
- The Heart Keeper (review), Publishers Weekly, July 2019
- Paul Burke, The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl (review), NB Magazine, 11 July 2019
- Eliassen, Åshild (22 April 2019). "Den ukjente norske krimstjerna". Dagbladet.no.
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