Christian Jungersen's The Exception - France

France - L'exception

Against a backdrop of the horrors of history and of more recent events, this novel lends the World Wide Web its true vocation – that of a spider’s web. A trap in which the readers will find themselves irresistibly ensnared.
Le Monde

France
The Exception was published in October 2006 by Les Éditions Denöel, part of the publishing group Editions Gallimard.

It was nominated for the important prize “Grand Prix des Lectrices.”

This mind-blowing novel deserves its title. For it really is an exception in the heterogeneous world of the thriller. Modernity, technique, suspense and psychological motivation have rarely been combined with such success. This 700-page novel that mixes historical memory, geopolitics and a subtle analysis of the human soul can be read in one swallow. With teeth clenched and fear in your belly.
Les Obsedes Textuels

This psychological thriller is a wonderful work thanks to which we are brought into the very heart of an apparently seductive system that resists the intrusion of a foreign body. … Christian Jungersen’s novel could well become a point of reference, even a model.
Courrier International

With formidable skill, Christian Jungersen combines the great problems of our planet with a detailed description of the minor pettiness that can spoil the life of anyone who works in an office.
Suspicion resides; friendships break down; factions, illicit behavior, cliques and game playing surface; loneliness takes hold. In the confined atmosphere of an office, hatred grows quickly, especially when it is hidden.
Le Bien Public

For several years, the most original suspense novels have emerged from the North, from Scandinavia and Iceland. After Henning Mankell, Arnaldur Indridson or Karin Alvtegen – among others – a new name in the genre has appeared: Christian Jungersen. He is Danish and shows great promise. The Exception is an excellent psychological thriller. In essence this novel poses the same question that haunts ‘Les Bienveillants’ by Jonathan Littell: how does a person become a torturer? Brilliant.
L’Est Republicain

France - L'exception