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How much can you learn about a city by reading crime novels? We look at Washington, D.C., and Stockholm, Sweden through the prism of crime fiction. Culture critic Joe Queenan is our guide. | |||||||||
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Place is often very important in contemporary crime fiction. Take, for example, the books of George Pelecanos. For the most part they are set in Washington, D.C. Pelecanos is known for skillfully teasing apart layers of racial tension in areas of the city not normally traversed by tourists. Today, on The Changing World, we explore how much readers can learn about a city from its crime novels. We begin in Washington, D.C.
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We now go to Sweden, which arguably has become the new international capital of crime fiction. That's due in no small measure to the works of Stieg Larsson. An underlying theme in Larsson’s books is violence against women. Sweden has the highest number of reported rapes of any country in Europe. That impacts many crime novels set there. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Joe Queenan travels to Stockholm, as he examines how well crime fiction describes real life in Sweden.
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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