Books from Denmark
EDDIE THOMAS PETERSEN is a well known lm director and script author on several successful films and TV-series in Denmark. In 2002 he published his first book: KISS (Kys). KISS won the debutant award the same year. Room for Rent is his 4th book.
INFORMATION:
ORIGINAL TITLE:
VÆRELSE TIL LEJE
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER:
People’sPress
PUBLICATION:
February 2017
292 pages
CONTACT:
Louise Langhoff Koch
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lolk@artpeople.dk
+45 2265 5368
“”Room for Rent” is a well written and well constructed thriller that definately mixes genre features from the thriller with a psychological drama and is packed with sharp satire and an excellent protagonist, the narrator Lennart.”
BY EDDIE THOMAS PETERSEN
Room for Rent
Middle-aged Senior Bank Clerk Lennart Bygholm Nielsen gets his world turned upside down, when he decides to rent out a room in his home. Encountering his new lodger, 24-year-old Ukrainian Natasja, causes him to experience a world, he has never known before.
One day the Criminal Investigation Department rings Lennart’s door bell, and his new life abruptly comes to a halt. Natasja has disappeared. The police fears, that she has been murdered. And who would be a more obvious suspect, than her middle- aged male landlord?
Lennart resists the accusations, but nds himself accidentally digging the hole deeper and deeper. And what is it that Lennart cannot remember? What is he hiding from his recent birding excursion to Sweden? And what was the actual relationship between Lennart and his young tenant?
Room for Rent is an intense description of the lonely wolf in modern society. The man who keeps to himself and has his own preferences and his own secrets. Secrets, which reveal themselves slowly but inevitably to the reader through descriptions, small hints and suggestions.