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Stockholm Noir
Why is Sweden not Russia
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| Jens Lapidus. Easy money. SPb, 2010 |
Stockholm Noir. Jens Lapidus, the star of the Swedish detective, presented in Moscow his novel “Slaged Money”. What is interesting to us the wrong side of the Swedish life - I learned The New Times
A successful 36-year-old lawyer, and in the past-a model with an appropriate appearance, Lapidus knows Swedish reality on both sides: with Glossy, the external, the symbol of which was once the ABBA group, and another, which is hidden behind the advertising image of the country that built the “Swedish socialism”.
Jens Lapidus gave his detective to Stockholm Noir subtitles (Stockholm Noir). But this is not even a detective, but rather a full -fledged multi -page romance dedicated to the Stockholm mafia, which, it would seem, should not be in a calm Sweden at all. Based on the real criminal cases with which the author had a chance to work in the Solletun court, he wrote the history of the mafia group operating in modern Stockholm. There are three main characters in the novel: Chilean Horhe, convicted of drug trafficking and escaping from prison, a representative of the Serbian criminal group, who is engaged in sports, racketeering and extortion, as well as the poor student of the Stockholm School of Economics Yu.V., who claims to be in the glamorous party, and together with his boss-Arabm income from cocaine trade. It is clear that the image of this particular Yu.V. The author gave something of his own: a guy from a modest environment, working as a carriage, but dreaming of sparkling in a secular society. The career of the model, which Jens Lapidus gave for several years, can also give a person a necessary sense of satisfaction and his own significance. Shirts from Paul Smith or Dior, Balanciag jackets, shoes from Mark Jacobs, which the author describes with love ... Any regular in the capital's parties will find a kindred soul in the hero. Lapidus even frankly negative heroes gives a coherent speech and thoughtful life motivation. But still, one must clearly understand that in front of us is an entertaining reading, albeit with the curious details of the Western lifestyle.
Jens Lapidus, it seems, tries (completely in the spirit of the famous Swedish tolerance) to avoid in the novel of reasoning about the growth of immigration, which, alas, supplies personnel for criminal groups. It is known that Sweden invests a lot of money in support of immigrants. The country does a noble business, helping visitors, but simultaneously gets problems in the form of a network in the spread of drugs and gangster groups, which are about fifty in the country today (some of them even have their own sites on the Internet).
The recognized this topic was the recognized master of the Swedish detective Stig Larson, whose Millennium detective trilogy was read by Europe and which is very popular in Russia. (Probably, there is a kind of masochistic pleasure in reading about “our” bandits - immigrants from Eastern Europe - in a well -fed and prosperous Sweden.) Larson's benevolent review of Lapidus’s novel is given. It is characteristic that, like the Millennium, the “crazy money” diverge of millions of circulations in Sweden itself and European countries itself. Now he went out in Russian.
Reading the novel, you involuntarily catch roll -calls with Russian reality, albeit a special property. Remarried voyages crossing the European border with Louis Witton bags is a nutrient medium for drug distributors. Almost every metropolitan glossy party and a nightclub are a cocaine distribution point. Having arrived from the province of "Models" earn a living by the same ... For us, the novel "Slaged Money" is a mild reflection of what blooms with a magnificent color with us.