num_pages: 348
description: In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel's bizarre behavior and feverish rants seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he had arrived.
language: None
title: Mysteries
titlecomplete: Mysteries
characters: Johan Nagel
genres: Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Literature, Psychology, Classics, Mystery, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 7181
places: Norway
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux