The official website for Jo Nesbo, author of the Harry Hole detective crime novels including The Bat, The Snowman and more bestselling thrillers, Blood on Snow and Midnight Sun. The first Jo Nesbo book was published in 1997 under the name The Bat. It soon won two awards, the 1997 Riverton Prize for Best Norwegian Crime Novel and the 1997 Glass Key for Best Nordic Crime Novel. In 1998 Jo moved to Bangkok for a while, where he worked on his second novel called Cockroaches. And so a new famous novel star, Harry Hole, was born. The Bat, by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo is the first of the Inspector Harry Hole (pronounced Hoo-leh) novels. Set in Australia of all places, Nesbo introduces our hero as a foreign policeman sent on a diplomatic mission to assist with the investigation of the murder of a minor Norwegian celebrity in Sydney. Download Jo Nesbo The Snowman Pdf DOWNLOAD. B Amp W The Black And White Fact Telugu Movies Free Download. The Bat Pdf ebook download. Total Downloads: 6741 Ebook Reads: 2999 File: the-bat.pdf/epub ISBN: The Bat - Jo Nesbo Summary. The electrifying first installment of the Harry Hole series. Look out for the latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, available now.
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20th anniversary edition of the first book in the internationally bestselling Harry Hole series
Includes the opening of the brand new Harry Hole thriller, The Thirst, and an exclusive new introduction by Jo Nesbo
HARRY IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH
Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can.
HE’S NOT SUPPOSED TO GET TOO INVOLVED…
When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on, but the murderer will talk only to Harry.
…BUT HE MIGHT JUST BE THE NEXT VICTIM
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Author | Jo Nesbø |
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Original title | Flaggermusmannen |
Country | Australia |
Language | Norwegian, English |
Series | Harry Hole (#1) |
Genre | Crime fiction |
Publisher | Harvill Secker |
Publication date | 1997 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
Pages | 432 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0099520320 |
Followed by | Cockroaches |
The Bat (Norwegian: Flaggermusmannen, 'Bat Man') is a 1997 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the first in the Harry Hole series.[1]
Plot[edit]
Norwegian police officer Harry Hole is sent to Sydney, Australia to serve as an attaché for the Australian police's investigation into the murder of a young female Norwegian celebrity, Inger Holter. Her boyfriend, Evans White, is initially approached as a suspect. Hole is assisted by Aboriginal colleague Andrew Kensington; together they find out that they are dealing with a serial killer who strangles blonde women. Hole befriends a red haired Swede named Birgitta. As the story becomes more complex, Hole struggles to find the killer and falls deeper into alcoholism. There are more back stories about Harry's past and culture in Australia.
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Translation status[edit]
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This is the first of the Harry Hole novels, introducing the character, but it was very late in being translated to English. The British and American publishers chose to start by translating the later books, set in Oslo, and only after these became very popular came around to publishing the first book, set in Australia.
This order of publication caused an unintended spoiler, as Harry's reminiscences in a later book—published earlier in English—included the name and specific characteristics of the murderer in The Bat.
The second book, The Cockroaches, set in Thailand, has been translated to English, fifteen years after being originally published in Norwegian, and was published in the UK in November 2013.[2]
Critical notes[edit]
Kirkus Reviews states that 'It’s an unusual debut since the very first page finds Harry clearing passport control in Sydney, half a world away from his native Oslo.. Harry is already every bit as volcanic as in his later cases. The big difference is Australia, which Nesbø, seeing it through the eyes of both a tourist and a cultural pathologist, makes you wonder how much different it is from Norway after all.'[3]
Andy Hoban of Sunday Express noted 'Nesbo’s principal characters are both credible and well-drawn and it is fantastic to see a younger Harry, a more loquacious Harry. The Bat explains some of what burdens and drives him in the later books. So for anyone new to Nesbo, you are in for a treat if you follow Harry’s career beginning with this book. For me, the biggest insult to Nesbo was to see him advertised as “the next Stieg Larsson” when in fact The Bat was written eight years before The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Still, now I can dig out the rest of the series and read them again, in order. Verdict: 5/5'[4]
References[edit]
- ^'The Bat: The First Inspector Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbo l Summary & Study Guide'. Goodreads. goodreads.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^'Jo Nesbø at Salomonsson'. Salomonsson Agency. Archived from the original on September 19, 2007. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
- ^'THE BAT by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett'. Kirkus Reviews. kirkusreviews.com. July 1, 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^Hoban, Andy (October 21, 2012). 'Book review: The Bat by Jo Nesbo'. Express.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
External links[edit]
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