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.
发表于2025-03-17
The Almost Nearly Perfect People 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
听一位来自英国的丹麦女婿谈他眼里的北欧社会,有意思。假如幸福背后有迹可寻,这将是一场再值得不过的旅行。 于我,丹麦不再是只有安徒生、潘多拉、世界上最幸福的国家,“谦卑的骄傲”恰当地描述了丹麦人的性格特点。缴纳全世界最高的税率,却也带给人足够的安全感。“失于外...
评分 评分 评分图书标签: 北欧 文化 旅行 英文原版 欧洲 travelling 英文版 文化之旅
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.
2016-08-16 emmm 可怕两年就过去了,当年在书店里看到的中文版读了一半然后一直没有电子版就一直没有读完(因为不想买纸质回家emmm 最后实在太无聊,于是下单读完它....学习好好多小知识呢
评分Bitterly judgmental and condescending
评分作者对瑞典真的很苛刻了呀~
评分Bitterly judgmental and condescending
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?
The Almost Nearly Perfect People 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书