DE REDAN DODA (ENGLISH TITLE: THE SWEDE)

Book ID/图书代码： 00500010B40212

English Summary/英文概要： Set in the American midwest and a small island in the Indian Ocean, THE SWEDE tells the story of what the war on terrorism does to people on the outskirts and blanked out spaces of this conflict. Royal bodyguard and member of the Swedish secret police Ernst Grip gets summoned to New York from Sweden by the FBI and taken to a remote Pacific atoll, in order to question a prisoner believed to be Swedish. He finds himself facing a silent, shadowy figure in prison who has been tortured. Grip slowly unravels the prisoner’s story which is somehow connected to a string of art thefts, as well as a bank robbery in Topeka, Kansas and the farthest reaches of the war on terrorism. Together with FBI agent Shauna Friedman, Grip must determine whether the prisoner is Swedish (thus identifying him as a criminal known as “N.” or “the Swede”), but Grip then comes to realize that his own life is inextricably intertwined with the unnamed prisoner’s. THE SWEDE is a tightly-plotted thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats while also playing intriguingly with our notions of nationality and the nature of identity. But this brief synopsis does not really do justice to the book’s plotting, especially the way widely separated individuals and places are connected by threads to the past. Both Grip and FBI agent Friedman are "mixed" figures, blending integrity and strength with moral lapses. Grip also has artistic sensibilities as well as physical prowess. His gay/bisexual side is unusual in this genre. And the seldom-described base on Diego Garcia is an exotic setting. Karjel plays on the theme of dual/shared identity (between Grip and N.; they are linked by nationality and the fact that N. found, and used Grip’s lost passport in Thailand). Karjel is clearly familiar with the world of security and crime investigation in the locales he describes. In this novel of tangled ideologies and false alliances no one is who he seems to be. Not even Grip himself.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 场景是美国中西部和印度洋上的一个小岛。《瑞典人》讲述的是反恐战争如何影响郊区的人们和冲突地区的故事。Ernst Grip是皇室保镖和瑞典的秘密警察，他受FBI征召从瑞典赶到纽约，接着到一座太平洋的环状珊瑚岛上，目的是审问一位疑似瑞典籍的犯人。到了监狱，他面对的是一个沉默阴暗的被拷问过的犯人。Grip抽丝剥茧，发现此人与一系列艺术品的被盗、堪萨斯州托皮卡市的一家银行抢劫案、以及反恐战争有着联系。Grip还必须和FBI特工Shauna Friedman一起作出决定：犯人到底是瑞典人“Swede”,还是未知国籍“N.”。同时，Grip意识到自己的生活居然和这个罪犯紧紧缠绕在了一起。《瑞典人》是本情节紧凑的惊悚小说，它即吸引了读者手不释卷，更引起了国籍和身份本质的探讨。此篇概述无法将这本书的精彩情节编排一一呈现，尤其是它用倒叙之线把分散在各地的各个人物串联起来。Grip和FBI特工都是复杂的人物，即正直坚强又会犯些道德上的错误。Grip不但英勇强壮，而且具备艺术素养。他的同性恋/双性恋倾向是此类小说中不多见的。寥寥几笔提起的Diego Garcia基地是个异国特色浓郁的地方。Karjel玩味着双重/共享身份的主题（Grip与未知国籍犯人因国籍问题而联系在一起，以及此犯人找到并利用Grip丢失的护照去了泰国）。他很清楚笔下场景里的治安世界和犯罪调查的情况。这本小说讲的是纠缠的意识形态和虚假的同盟关系。似乎没有人是他表现的那样，包括Grip他自己。(兼职翻译-SXX)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Robert Karjel is a lieutenant colonel in the Swedish Air Force and commands a helicopter squadron. Before flying helicopters, he served as a fighter pilot. He was educated at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he earned a master’s degree in applied physics. In 2005, Karjel was a fellow at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he wrote his latest novel. This past spring he spent three months as Air Force commander on the HMS Carlskrona in the Gulf of Aden, countering Somali pirates and helping to keep peace in the region of Yemen, an Al Qaeda stronghold. In fact, he appeared in a BBC documentary on September 13, 2010 called "The Trouble With Pirates". Researching his novels has taken him to the Libyan desert, Amazonian drug dens, and the private library of the Vatican. Karjel lives outside of Stockholm with his wife and two daughters.
Robert Karjel是瑞典空军的中校，麾下有一支直升机中队。在此之前，他曾是战斗机飞行员。他毕业于斯德哥尔摩的皇家技术学院，拥有应用物理学的硕士学位。2005年他在马萨诸塞州的阿默斯特大学任研究员，在那里他撰写了最新的小说。今年春天他花了三个月在亚丁湾Carlskrona英国军舰上担任空军指挥官，与索马里海盗作战，帮助维护也门（基地组织的据点）的和平。实际上，BBC2010年9月13日的纪录片“海盗引起的麻烦”里有他的镜头。为了写小说，他到过利比亚沙漠、亚马逊毒窟、和梵蒂冈的私人图书馆做过研究。Karjel目前和他的妻子及两个女儿居住在斯德哥尔摩郊外。

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