Diablo Doma: (The Devils Home)
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ISBN10: 1512106372
ISBN13: 9781512106374
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 14 2015
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781512106374
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 14 2015
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
DIABLO DOMA -The Devil's Home New novel by 3xTop 10 Norwegian writer, Frank Tandberg. -In Diablo Doma from the Kosovo war, we follow the 40 year old Norwegian freelance journalist Stig Heggland. The novel begins when we meet Stig in Malmö. He has a short time ago lost his job at a magazine in Oslo, and now survives as a dock-hand in the Malmo harbour. Together with his younger Swedish friend, René, he travels cross the Baltic sea, on vacation at the seaside village Pobirowo, in Poland, where they get to know the Baywatch, - the athletic Russian Slonin, who is a former chopper pilot from Afghanistan. Slonin offers Stig a job: he knows a Russian Major who would have his life story written down. -When summer is nearing its end, René returns to his home and job in Malmo, while Stig joins Slonin for a 500 km ride, to a hotel on the Polish-Czech Republic border, where Stig ends up waiting weeks for the Major. Eventually several young Russian soldiers arrives, and it turns out that Stig has got himself into a run-gathering, for a group of mercenaries, off for the Balkan war. When Stig (who is totally broke) has incurred a large hotel and bar bill, he is forced to join the team, when they break up from the hotel, and travelling towards Kosovo, - in the belief that he will be sitting in some military camp and write down the history of the Major. It doesn't happen. Instead, Stig ends up together with the heavy armed group straight into the field. And soon Stig and the others are on an everlasting, desperate, run through the war-torn areas of Kosovo, with the UCK-Albanian guerrillas hunting them. It degenerates - to put it mildly- into a hell of murder and violence. -For me it seems as if the author has a good knowledge of the subject, - the realism of the dirty, tired and scared soldiers life. And the text is in a rough and jargon characterized language. A journey through an endless inferno. Stig is caught in the mercenary expedition, constantly in deadly shoot-outs with the guerrillas, and often experience the gruesome things.
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