The Secret Norwegian Volume Four

The Secret Norwegian Volume Four

By Anthony King

​Paperback & Kindle
309 Pages
5″ x 8″ (12.7 x 20.32cm)
ISBN: 9781838195205
BISAC: Nonfiction/Travel/Psychology

About the book

Norway – what does it really mean to live under Jante Law? In this concluding volume, Anthony King gets to the heart of the lauded ‘Nordic lifestyle’ by persuading 350 Norwegians to tell him about their lives. Almost without exception, they described how great it was to live in Norway. He listened politely…  and then he asked them to tell him the truth. In fifteen months Anthony King amassed over 500,000 words of transcripts and hundreds of hours of recordings with the Prime Minister, doctors, teachers, students, scientists, hotel workers and people from all walks of life, of all ages. From Oslo, Tromso, Svalbard and a total of fifteen cities across Norway and from over fifty smaller locations including Sogndalstrand, Averoy, Romsdalen and more to Sweden and Denmark. Is Norway a country living in denial? Decide for yourself as you read the final conversations about what life is really like in Norway, told by Norwegians in their own words. What they said WILL shock you.

Table of Contents

Foreword 
Introduction 
A Conversation with a Receptionist in Longyearbyen, Svalbard
This is Norway – A Cover Up in Svalbard?
A Conversation about Norwegian Arts and Culture
This is Norway – The Great Norwegian Painter: Edvard Munch 
A Conversation with an Eighty- Year- Old Norwegian Lady 
A Conversation with a Multi-millionaire 
A Conversation with a Sami Teenager 
A Conversation with a Former Norwegian Resident
This is Norway – “Black man! Black man!”
A Conversation with a Norwegian Landmark Worker 
This is Norway – Oh no no no… 
A Conversation with a Norwegian Teenager
A Conversation with a Norwegian Family 
This is Norway – A Taxi ride to Longyearbyen Airport
A Conversation with a Teacher 
This is Norway – Good Americans in Svalbard 
A Conversation with a Large-business Owner 
Afterward – How powerful is Janteloven?
Source Notes 
About the Author
Also by the Author

The Secret Norwegian - Breaking the Curse of Janteloven Filmed and Directed by Anthony King