{"id":2532,"date":"2016-09-05T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T11:40:19","slug":"books-on-monday-norway-culture-smart-and-norwegian-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/books-on-monday-norway-culture-smart-and-norwegian-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Monday: &#8220;Norway &#8211; culture smart&#8221; and &#8220;Norwegian by Night&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<p class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\">Here are a few books that you might find interesting<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Norway &#8211; Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs &amp; Culture<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>by <span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\">Linda March <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * do&#8217;s, don&#8217;ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=norweggeneala-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1857333314&amp;asins=1857333314&amp;linkId=d45baf225281d8960c011247b11a2912&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:15px 0;border-width:7px;border-color:#228ef9\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-none\">\n<h6 id=\"title\" class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Norwegian by Night<\/span> <span class=\"a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal\">Paperback<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"byline\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\">by <span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\"><span class=\"a-declarative\" data-action=\"a-popover\" data-a-popover=\"{&quot;closeButtonLabel&quot;:&quot;Close Author Dialog Popover&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;contributor-info-B00COWS7XO&quot;,&quot;position&quot;:&quot;triggerBottom&quot;,&quot;popoverLabel&quot;:&quot;Author Dialog Popover&quot;,&quot;allowLinkDefault&quot;:&quot;true&quot;}\">Derek B. Miller<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\">\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div>An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR<br \/>\nA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR<br \/>\nA GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR<br \/>\nA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cA soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilderness and you just might make peace with your god, your ghosts, and yourself.\u201d \u2014 Gary Shteyngart, author of <i>Super Sad True Love Story<\/i>Sheldon Horowitz\u2014widowed, impatient, impertinent\u2014has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway\u2014a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbor\u2019s young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. As Sheldon and the boy look for a safe haven in an alien world, past and present weave together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the best books of the season, of any genre.\u201d \u2014<i> Buffalo News<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesb\u00f8, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists.\u201d \u2014 <i>Booklist <\/i>(starred review)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=norweggeneala-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0544292669&amp;asins=0544292669&amp;linkId=b4fd4b58463cca76d12d8f08d33aa589&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/index.php\/category\/life-in-general\/books\/\">Take a look at the other books I have recommended by going to this page<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few books that you might find interesting Norway &#8211; 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