Red Milk Av Sjon

<p><b>''A book like a blade of light, searching out and illuminating the darkest corners of history . . . It''s vivid, unputdownable, alive, and written with unerring artfulness and subtlety.'' Neel Mukherjee</b><br><br>Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjav¿during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring brother and son, at nineteen he seems set to lead a conventional life. Yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party with ties to a burgeoning international network of neo-Nazis - a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.<br><br>In this striking novel, inspired by one of the ringleaders of an Icelandic neo-Nazi group formed in the late 1950s, Sj¿n masterfully constructs the portrait of an ordinary young man who becomes a right-wing zealot. Exposing the roots of the far-right movements of today, <i>Red Milk</i> is a timely reminder that the seeds of extremism can be h