‘The Wolf and the Watchman’ by Niklas Natt Och Dag (tr. Ebba Segerberg) : Book Review.

Only the city is real, but this is no one’s idea of an ode. The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt Och Dag’s historical crime novel set in eighteenth-century Stockholm, is grotesque, nightmarish, brilliant and far and away the most disgusting book I’ve read since The North Water. Mickel Cardell is a shell-shocked amputee and…