If I say the words Oslo Court, the chances are you'll conjure up an icy courtroom in the Norwegian capital where Anders Breivik, the ideologue who read too many conspiracy theories on the internet, is on trial for mass murder. But there's another Oslo Court, a restaurant of wonderfully indeterminate nationality – Ruritanian is how I'd describe it; "like stumbling into Narnia", is how Matthew Norman does – discreetly positioned on the ground floor of an apartment block in St John's Wood, a hop and a skip from Regents Park (not that you'll be hopping and skipping anywhere after their Wiener Holstein).
Good evening Mr. Jacobson, I would like introduce myself. My name is Camilla Taddeo and I am an italian student at the last year of Modern Philology at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, a small city pretty near Rome. In the last period I got to read your novels, such as "The Finkler Question", "Kalooki Nights" and "The Mighty Walzer". Through these novels I had the opportunity and pleasure to relieve my experience in Manchester, where I studied (unfortunatly just for four months!) at Manchester Metropolitan University. I'm writing you because I would like to write about your personality, your life and your texts for my final thesis. May I ask some questions during the writing of my thesis, please? It would be a great pleasure and a great possibility for me.
I would like introduce myself. My name is Camilla Taddeo and I am an italian student at the last year of Modern Philology at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, a small city pretty near Rome.
In the last period I got to read your novels, such as "The Finkler Question", "Kalooki Nights" and "The Mighty Walzer". Through these novels I had the opportunity and pleasure to relieve my experience in Manchester, where I studied (unfortunatly just for four months!) at Manchester Metropolitan University.
I'm writing you because I would like to write about your personality, your life and your texts for my final thesis.
May I ask some questions during the writing of my thesis, please?
It would be a great pleasure and a great possibility for me.
Best Regards,
Camilla Taddeo