A Book on Gyldendal shows urgency, says BT culture editor Jens Kihl

When you need to drop a book bomb: Don’t drop it on yourself.

It could be shame to say that the new book “Partiet” by daily journalists Steinar Suvatne and Jørgen Gilbrant is based on “truth, lies and bad memory”, the slogan from “Makta” app series which happened last winter.

It would be an unfair criticism.

Because when you are quoting word for word from conversations with two parties where neither of them was a source in the book, or determining exactly what dead people were thinking in certain situations, it is a real invention ‘ there. You have not spoken to those who have strong or weak memories of what happened. It is close to manufacturing.

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“The Party” it will probably be the scandal book of the year.

After 70 interviews with anonymous people around Ap, Suvante and Gilbrant have delivered 320 pages of the character assassination attempt of Jonas Gahr Støre. Everything he does is wrong. When others do something wrong, the party leader is to blame. When they do something right, there is a challenge in Støre.

In addition, the book is spoiled by a boyish feeling that smells tight. Five times, the issues surrounding Trond Giske are referred to as “women’s stories”, and the metoo issues are very quiet in this book. And there’s more: