The Ice Swimmer
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When – at long last – the warmth returned, her skin tingled as her blood burst its way through the thinnest, finest blood vessels in God’s creation. She thrilled with the sense of it, sat with closed eyes relishing the Creator in action, life returning, forcing out the paralysing cold and infusing her skin with heat, energy and vibrancy.
About the Author
One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published eleven novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich. In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has been published in fourteen countries, and he lives in Oslo.
Follow Kjell Ola on Twitter @ko_dahl.
About the Translator
Don Bartlett completed an MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2000 and has since worked with a wide variety of Danish and Norwegian authors, including Jo Nesbø and Karl Ove Knausgård. For Orenda he has translated several titles in Gunnar Staalesen’s Varg Veum series: We Shall Inherit the Wind, Wolves in the Dark and the Petrona award-winning Where Roses Never Die. He also translated Faithless, the previous book in Kjell Ola Dahl’s Oslo Detectives Series for Orenda. He lives with his family in a village in Norfolk.
Copyright
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First published in Norwegian as Isbaderen by Gyldendal, Norway, 2011
First published in the United Kingdom by Orenda Books, 2018
Copyright © Kjell Ola Dahl 2011
English language translation copyright © Don Bartlett 2017
Kjell Ola Dahl has asserted his moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publishers.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–1–912374–07–6
eISBN 978–1–912374–08–3
This publication of this translation has been made possible through the financial support of NORLA, Norwegian Literature Abroad