# Red Milk

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- Book: [Red Milk](https://www.bookquiver.com/sjon/red-milk) ([Red Milk.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sjon/red-milk.md))
- Authors: [Sjón](https://www.bookquiver.com/sjon)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-15-2935-592-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023 '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 Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavík 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. In this striking novel, inspired by one of the ringleaders of an Icelandic neo-Nazi group formed in the late 1950s, Sjón 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, Red Milk is a timely reminder that the seeds of extremism can be hard to detect and the allure of fascism remains dangerously potent.