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Sun, 25 Dec 2005
Sommerfugleffekten (The Butterfly Effect)
I've been residing where I am now for about 9 years and was only peripherially aware that their was a local library. About a week ago, I stumbled upon it and decided to sign up.
Perusing the aisles of I found The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmions – the conclusion was okay and I finally understand how Rachel can live three time and what it means to be travelling in opposite timeline directions – and other book called The Butterfly Effect
Initially I thought this might have been the precursor to the very good movie of the same name. But I was wrong. It was better.
The book is written in Norweigan by Pernille Rygg and has been translated into English by Joan Tate. It is a relatively short book (~200 pages) so I had to take break otherwise I would have read it all in one sitting.
The Butterfly Effect is about a young researcher whose father is runover by a car. He happens to be a private detective and in the course of returning some items to an ex-client, she finds the client dead.
More coincidences ensue, such as driving past a church only to see it being set alight and another body discovered. Couple this with her transvestite husband and interludes into typically Scandanavian culture (sauna, skiing, swearing in Russian) and it is fairly gripping.
Best of all, though, is that because I've travelled close to the area where the book is set (sadly not to Oslo itself; the closest I've come to Norway is Christian Schaller) I could visualise the story really well.
And that made it a good Christmas. I hope you had an enjoyable time whatever you got up to.
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