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In una notte d'estate del 1974, Annie arriva con sua figlia Mia nel remoto villaggio svedese di Svartvattnet per seguire Dan, il suo compagno, che vive in una comune. Non trovandolo alla stazione, Annie si avventura nella foresta con la bambina, ma invece di trovare la comune si imbatte nei cadaveri di due campeggiatori brutalmente uccisi e scorge una figura in fuga. Un crimine che rimane irrisolto per vent'anni fino a quando Annie vede Mia, ormai adulta, nelle braccia dell'uomo che aveva intravisto nella foresta quella notte.
- ISBN: 8856500558
- Casa Editrice: Il Saggiatore
- Pagine: 472
- Data di uscita: 15-01-2009
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Book Review There are [Swedish] writers who set their novels in the more rural and sparsely populated settings, lending a decidedly chill atmosphere to the stories (the Swedish have an almost mystical attitude towards wooded areas and trees). The above I wrote in my review of and in response to Camill Leggi tutto
Part of what continues to fascinate me about Scandinavian crime fiction is the routine respect with which the authors approach their genre--the real quality of the prose and complexity not only of the plots themselves, but of the milieus--the characters and settings peripheral to the events that the Leggi tutto
Excellent, fantastic, a classic. Should have read it sooner. But never too late. The POVs change all the time, you never know whose you are going to follow when a new chapter starts. I just reread one of my reviews in which this also occurs all the time and I was fed up with it and downgraded the boo Leggi tutto
A welcome discovery for insatiable fans of Henning Mankell. This complicated, disturbing novel reminds me of the best of Ruth Rendell. The story is spread over a couple decades, involving a crime that evades understanding, let alone a solution. First published in Sweden in 1993, Blackwater won the S Leggi tutto
Bleeeech. I hated everyone in this book and wished they all would die, and i am pissed that i spent my precious time reading it for nothing. The story kept promising interest, but never delivered. Crappy, crappy book.
I always felt like I was being kept at arm's length while I read this book, and unfortunately that meant that I didn't develop any sort of sympathy for any of the characters. I'm thinking this is an "atmospheric thriller," because it definitely had a sense of time and place. However, when the locati Leggi tutto
- Have you read Händelser Vid Vatten ? Kerstin Ekman. - Which one's that? - You know, the controversial one. The teenage boy gets stuck down a well... - Oh right, that one! Yes, I've read it. He escapes with a salamander in a bucket... - Isn't it an eel? - Well maybe an eel then. I don't know. And he some Leggi tutto
I simply could not connect with this book. It has been critically acclaimed. I can even understand why that is so. From a technical standpoint, it is brilliant. The narrative voice revolves around three main characters: Birger Törbjönnsson, a rural doctor; Annie Raft, an unwed mother; and Johan Bran Leggi tutto
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