Kongemordet - Hanne-Vibeke Holst

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Title: Kongemordet (Regicide) Author: Hanne-Vibeke Holst Genre: Fiction Rating: 9/10 # pages: Audiobook Date read: July, 2008

Summary: Gert Jakobsen has it all - a successful political career, the respect of the media and an ever-growing fan base who'd love to see him as the next chairman of Socialdemokraterne and - who knows - maybe even the next prime minister! If only his wife, Linda, would behave, so he wouldn't have to beat her into submission all the time. He's not a violent man, oh no, and if he has to slap her around now and then, it's her own fault!

Review: A very, very powerful and disturbing book. While the political and the personal lives of Gert Jakobsen were closely interwoven, it was definitely the personal life I found more interesting, and most troubling. Part of me just wanted to yell at Linda and tell her to get out of there already, to press charges, to divorce his ass, and not allow herself to be subjected to that treatment any longer. The other part of me realised that it's the kind of situation where you never know how you'll act, until you actually try it on your own body.

A very strong book that I hope gets translated to English, because I'd recommend it to everybody

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