Bad Blood: a Crime Novel
“He was a lover of nuance, and as a newcomer to Stockholm, his manner of enjoying the city fell in a gray zone between a tourist’s superficial fascination and a native’s experienced gaze. The sun promoted both types of relationships, but the more profound pleasure of the newcomer required a certain degree of cloudiness, enough that the colors could come into their own without being flattened by the distorting light of the sun. That his theory might have something to do with his own sensitivity t...o the sun was not something he’d reflected on.
But now he’d had enough of clouds. He was standing in one of his favorite places in the city and could barely see his hand in front of his face, and he definitely couldn’t see either Operan or the Arvfurstens Palace, home to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That was where he was strutting off to now, under his silly Bamse umbrella, which he had grabbed at home by accident; he could visualize his next-youngest daughter’s face staring up into a heavenly arch of police logos.MoreLess
But now he’d had enough of clouds. He was standing in one of his favorite places in the city and could barely see his hand in front of his face, and he definitely couldn’t see either Operan or the Arvfurstens Palace, home to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That was where he was strutting off to now, under his silly Bamse umbrella, which he had grabbed at home by accident; he could visualize his next-youngest daughter’s face staring up into a heavenly arch of police logos.MoreLess
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