num_pages: 303
description: He will not admit it to Rhea and Lars - never of course not - but Sheldon can't help but wonder what it is he's doing here..Eighty-two years old and recently widowed Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. An ex-Marine he talks often to the ghosts of his past - the friends he lost in the Pacific and the son who followed him into the US Army and to his death in Vietnam.When Sheldon witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex he rescues her six-year-old son and decides to run. Pursued by both the Balkan gang responsible for the murder and the Norwegian police he has to rely on training from over half a century before to try and keep the boy safe. Against a strange and foreign landscape this unlikely couple who can't speak the same language start to form a bond that may just save them both.An extraordinary debut featuring a memorable hero Norwegian by Night is the last adventure of a man still trying to come to terms with the tragedies of his life. Compelling and sophisticated it is both a chase through the woods thriller and an emotionally haunting novel about ageing and regret.
language: English
title: Norwegian by Night
publisher: Scribe