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The Red Handler

The Red Handler

The Red Handler
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The Red Handler Paperback - 2024

by Harstad, Johan

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  • Title The Red Handler
  • Author Harstad, Johan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Open Letter
  • Publication date 2024-03-26
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1472064
  • ISBN 9781948830805 / 1948830809
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Detectives, Detective and mystery fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code 839.823

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

Johan Harstad is a Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation. He is the winner of the 2008 Brage Award (Brageprisen), previously won by Per Petterson, and his books have been published in over eleven countries. In 2009, he was named the first ever in-house playwright at the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion, originally published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was made into a TV series in 2009 starring The Wire's Chad Coleman. Harstad lives in Oslo.


David Smith grew up outside of Atlanta and studied English and philosophy at the University of Georgia. He then earned a Master's Degree in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. After Chicago, a lifelong interest in his family's Nordic heritage brought him to Norway. He took language classes at the University of Oslo, before settling in Bergen and starting to work as a commercial translator. In 2014, he earned a National Translator Accreditation from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. He is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

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