作者：MichaelBooth
出版社：JonathanCape
副标题：TheTruthAbouttheNordicMiracle
出版年：2014-2-6
页数：416
定价：GBP14.99
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780224089623
内容简介
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As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes?
Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians, on and off, for over ten years, perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and character traits and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic that has engulfed the rest of the world, whether it be for their food, television, social systems or chunky knitwear.
In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success and, most intriguing of all, what they think of each other. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterised by suffocating parochialism and populated by extremists of various shades.
They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn't easy being Scandinavian.
作者简介
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Michael Booth contributes to numerous British and foreign magazines and all of the UK's broadsheet newspapers. He is the author of four works of non-fiction: Eat, Pray, Eat, which was nominated for a British Travel Press Award in 2012; Just As Well I'm Leaving, nominated for the Irish Times first writers award; Sacré Cordon Bleu, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week; and Sushi and Beyond, winner of the Guild of Food Writers award in 2010. He lives in Denmark with his wife and children.
评论 ······
去丹麦和瑞典前就买来读，回来后断断续续一个月终于读完了。书的前99%讲almost，最后1%讲perfect。对于印象中的北欧，3周的生活体验的北欧，书中的北欧有了不一样的感觉和统一。作者的幽默和常常的戏精（stop me!!!)表达方式实在太有趣了，至于客观与否，还需要探索
看了introduction和iceland部分。本书是一本关于北欧各国的社会随笔&杂感类文章集合，作者传递的信息量并不大，价值也有限。
"You know, I wouldn't trust a Swede, and I wouldn't trust an Icelander, but you can always trust a Finn."
有点一言难尽，某些吐槽还挺可爱的，但是结尾的态度总觉得有点突兀。
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