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Johan Theorin
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Publisher | Black Swan | ||
ISBN | 978-055277463 | ||
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Selina
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Synopsis
Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point inexorably to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others. But Nils Kant died during the 1960s. So who is the stranger seen wandering across the fields as darkness falls? It soon becomes clear that someone wants to stop Julia's search for the truth. And that he's much, much closer than she thinks ..
Review
This book is certainly different from any other I've read.
Written as a mixture of present day and flashbacks; it tells the story of a missing boy and his mother's quest for answers to the questions surrounding his disappearance 20 years later.
Based in a small village in Sweden, the book also tells the story of the village and how it, and its residents have changed over time.
The authors vivid descriptions keep the reader engaged with the story all the way through, and you can tell that the author is from, and loves, this country.
The book concludes well, with an unexpected and well written ending that ties the past and present elements together well.
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