The Susan Effect

by Peter Hïeg, Martin Aitken (Translator)

Overview

Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official: use her power one more time and have all charges dropped. To get her life back in order, she must track down the last surviving members of a secret think tank, the Future Committee, and find out the details in this committee’s mysterious final report. But there are some powerful people determined to stop her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784702267
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	11/01/2018
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Peter Høeg's crime novel Smilla's Sense of Snow received universal acclaim and was an international bestseller. His other books include The Quiet Girl and The History of Danish Dreams. Martin Aitken is a widely published translator of Danish literature. He received the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize in 2012. He translated Peter Høeg’s The Elephant Keepers’ Children, Dorthe Nors’ Karate Chop, and Kim Leine’s The Prophets of Eternal Fjord.

Editorial Reviews

"An artfully written, exuberant thriller with a mercurial and interesting central character." —Barry Forshaw, Guardian


"It's a rare treat to read a book by the far-from-prolific Danish author Peter Høeg. . . His latest novel is an offbeat futuristic thriller. . . the challenges Hoeg sets his readers are well worth taking on." —Express


"A well-tuned and clever femi-thriller." —Politiken


"The Danish author is back on form in this literary thriller." —Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Mail on Sunday


"Peter Høeg is back. And better. And with a novel that is both a thriller, a social critique, and existentially provoking—and on top of that, wonderful and funny." —Dagbladenes Bureau

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