Fourteen years after being wrongfully convicted of a murder Mister Myrden ispardoned and released from prison. Stepping back into the world he feelsoverwhelmed ... » 

Fourteen years after being wrongfully convicted of a murder Mister Myrden ispardoned and released from prison. Stepping back into the world he feelsoverwhelmed and disorientated on the outside. When he returns to his oldneighbourhood a street where violence lurks behind practically every door hefinds himself out of place and ambivalent to his wife who is living in anothermans house to his friends who want both to celebrate and to provoke furtherviolence and to the one million dollars compensation he has received from thegovernment. What Myrden wants is his daughter now married to an abusive manand his beloved granddaughter out of that neighbourhood. Written in abruptprose that brilliantly reflects Myrdens cautious evaluation of everyone andeverything Inside pulls the reader forward with the quiet creeping gravityof Greek tragedy. It is a dazzling novel about the institutions we create inorder to keep people confined and about a destructive family shutting off itschildren from lifes vast possibilities. «