Böcker av Jens Bjørneboe

Powderhouse is a novel which is set in an asylum for the criminally insane, where the narrator functions as a kind of porter, observing and commenting on the foibles of inmates and keepers alike

The first in a trilogy of books that examine the evil inherent in the human race. Set in a middle-European principality, it centres on the narrator, a servant of justice, employed to brush gowns, fill inkwells and be daily witness to injustice masquerading as a court of law.

Set at the end of last century, The Sharks is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bears comparison with Melville's Moby Dick or Conrad's Typhoon in its suspense and its evocation of the fascination of the sea.