{"product_id":"the-mannequin-murder-a-novel","title":"The Mannequin Murder: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Karsten—a little Holden Caulfield, a little Patrick Bateman—in this delirious, darkly comic stream of consciousness from one of Norway’s great literary talents, thrillingly translated by Kari Dickson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor your average fourteen-year-old, it would be a normal, middle-class life: father’s a doctor, mother’s an English teacher, a baby sister toddles aimlessly around the house in sagging diapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Karsten is not like other fourteen-year-olds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe processes every object, every event, in exquisite, reality-bending detail—a breathless, never-ending narration that moves faster than the speed of thought. The intricacies of the optic nerve, the proper gutting of a fish, the queasy consistency of his mother’s burst blackheads, spied upon surreptitiously through a crack in the bathroom door—nothing escapes his field of view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t always make him popular; lately, a gang of neighbourhood boys has been sending him threatening letters signed “The Enemy.” But Karsten has other things on his mind: no sooner did his father give him a video camera than he discovered the bloody corpse of a mannequin in the compost. An investigation had to commence, complete with witness interrogations and a dramatic recreation of the terrible crime itself—with his mother cast in the role of the murder victim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, one morning, Karsten’s father asks him to say goodbye to his childhood home. An overnight bag is packed, and he is told they are leaving for a trip—and everything is set into motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough sheer ecstatic storytelling, Ingvild Schade has created an instantly unforgettable literary character. You’ve never met a mind quite like Karsten’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strange Light","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53880402051438,"sku":"9780771018107","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0884\/7448\/5102\/files\/9780771018107.jpg?v=1780678262","url":"https:\/\/wildwoodbookstore.ca\/products\/the-mannequin-murder-a-novel","provider":"Wildwood Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}