Red Handler

Red Handler - Paperback

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Red Handler

Red Handler - Paperback

by Johan Harstad
$15.95
Sale price  $15.95 Regular price 

Book Overview

A riotous metafictional dissection of a "famous" Norwegian detective writer


Frode Brandeggen (1970-2014), an unknown voice to most readers, made his debut in 1992
with the experimental 2,000+ page novel Conglomerate Breath. It was never reviewed and soon
forgotten. After that, he created a new genre, writing fifteen micro-novels about "Red Handler," a
protest-oriented crime fiction project aimed at confronting the genre's weakness-and often
unnecessary length.


As his weapon, he developed a private investigator who is already at the
scene or in the immediate vicinity when foul play takes place, so that the perp can be caught red
handed and the case quickly solved, thus offering crime fiction to people who don't have the
time to read long books, or who simply hate to read, but love crime.


This book brings together all fifteen micro-novels Brandeggen wrote about Red
Handler for the first time, and is also equipped with a comprehensive amount of enthusiastic, explanatory,
complementary, and sometimes strangely digressive endnotes, written in the pen of Brandeggen's
closest literary confidant in the final years, German professional annotator Bruno Aigner (1934-).


This novel about the fiction Red Handler, Frode Brandeggen, and Bruno Aigner is Johan Harstad's wildest, most hysterical project to date.

ISBN9781948830805
Author Johan Harstad
PublisherOpen Letter Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Johan Harstad

Johan Harstad won the 2008 Norwegian Brage Award in the young adult/children's literature category for 172 Hours on the Moon. He has also written several novels for adults, including Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2011 book, which has been published in thirteen countries; four plays; a collection of short stories; and a prose collection. He has been described as "one of the most important [Scandinavian] authors to emerge in the early years of this century." He lives in Oslo, Norway.

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