具体描述
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
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.
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写得真好啊。 在阿猫阿狗都在公共场合发表虚无缥缈的言论或作品的今天，我险些忘记了严肃写作的魔力。当然把这本书称为严肃作品都有些委屈，那些毫不费力的机灵散落在全书各处，往往在我认真标记着数据、咀嚼着采访对象用词的下一秒，就为作者反政治正确的刻薄爆发出真实的大笑...
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英国人的吐槽真是逆天… 话说作者一开始的动机应该是为了吐槽丹麦吧，后来怕被老婆打死才扩展到了北欧五国？
评分因为他和我一样都是住在丹麦的外国人，所以很多观察对我来说都很“亲切”。有时候也会想如果是一个北欧人来写这本书又会是个什么样子，但北欧人自己又真的能理解自己吗？
评分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
评分英国人的吐槽真是逆天… 话说作者一开始的动机应该是为了吐槽丹麦吧，后来怕被老婆打死才扩展到了北欧五国？
评分They (Iceland) still have to import virtually everything apTart from electricity and fish????
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