An ex-insurance claim investigator seeks justice in a post-apocalyptic society ruled by the Clan, whose behaviour and personalities are patterned after the Norse gods.

I enjoyed it and I would probably have done so even more if I'd known more about Norse mythology because I suspect there were some parallels I was missing ( )

The Hurricane Party is part Swedish 1984 and Norse myth about the banquet all gods attend during which Loki, the trickster god, trips over his ego and kills a favored servant.

My reading of The Hurricane Party was another case of wishing the book was something it wasn't. I found the parts before and after the banquet story to be stilted, and somewhat mundane. Understanding that the foundation was being laid, I kept on. The banquet story was such fun to read, but didn't match with the rest.

It's a story about love but it takes a long way to get there. ( )

http://tamaranth.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/201231-hurricane-party-klas-ostergren.ht... ( )

Denne mytomspunne Östergren ger sig in i ett av världshisoriens mest pretentiösa eller åtminstone ambitiösa projekt - men ror det faktiskt iland. Jag tröttnar lite framåt slutet på de ingående beskrivningarna av alla i Klanen men på det stora hela: både bra & elegant. Nordisk mytologi är mer än Tors hammare liksom. ( )

Here, a story is put forward that I am not entirely sure what to think of. It is so different. Different as a story for a novel. Different Östergren… Bit it’s good. It’s not the least noticeable on the author’s straight forward way of describing the world in which the novel is set. A world pretty much like ours but with differences.

Östergren’s language is as usual very good. In this novel it doesn’t stand out as obvious as compared to other texts by him that I’ve read. The story eventually becomes so particular that all my attention is required for it.
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Här framläggs en historia som inte är alldeles lätt för mig att förhålla mig till. Det är så annorlunda. Annorlunda som romanhistoria. Annorlunda Östergren... Men det är bra. Inte minst märker man det på författarens självklara sätt att beskriva den värld som romanen utspelar sig i. En värld ganska lik vår men den skiljer sig också.

Östergrens språk är som vanligt mycket bra. I denna roman står det inte ut lika tydligt jämfört med andra alster jag läst av honom. Historien blir till slut så speciell att min uppmärksamhet krävs där till hundra procent. ( )