The Hurricane Party

By Klas Ostergren,

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Hanck Orn's son is dead. When they come to the door they tell him it was a heart attack, but he knows they are lying.

So he travels to the outermost reaches of the land to find out what really happened. When he lands on the island he is met…

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Klas Östergren is one of Sweden’s foremost literary novelists and The Hurricane Party was his contribution to Canongate’s early 21st-century Myth Series (although it was apparently subsequently removed from it). The Hurricane Party is the most imaginative retelling of Norse mythology that I’ve read. It focuses on events that precede Ragnarök and takes place in a futuristic, climate-ravaged, dystopian Stockholm. The plot centers around the Flyting of Loki, a pivotal scene from The Poetic Edda in which Loki turns against the gods and kills one of their servants. Östergren’s novel follows the journey of the father (his own invented…

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