Rightly Judged (2023)
2023
273 pages
Fiction
In Tangavik two hundred years ago, dangerous ideas run rampant; ideas about justice and equality. Secretly, people are plotting to free the rich from the wealth that weighs them down, but when it comes down to it, the authorities are not amused. Crimes threaten society’s values, and it is vitally important to suppress dissent and rebellion; find the guilty, judge harshly and punish cruelly. Many of the colourful threads from Einar’s previous novel, Poetic Criminology, are spun forward in various directions:
Reviews
"Rightly Judged is magnificent, lavish, generous, and extravagant ... I believe this generous novel deserves all my accolades."
BJØRN BREDAL, POLITIKEN
"Beautifully delivered in Gudmundsson's witty, utterly irresistible language."
KULTUREN.NU
“A profoundly well crafted piece of writing, imaginative, posing questions that speak to the present times.”
SKAFTI TH. HALLDORSSON
"Einar's narration is lively and entertaining, the narrator is companionable and appropriately carefree, jumps back and forth in time, turns on and off and repeats himself, sometimes to move the story forward, sometimes to mislead us or to talk about something that seems unimportant, but then turns out to be significant ... Exceptionally entertaining books by a great master storyteller who has his heart in the right place (it beats for the underdog)."
ARNI MATTHIASSON
“Gudmundsson is a born storyteller … a masterpiece!”
POLITIKEN, DENMARK (on Dog Days)
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