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Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist


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Summary

Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another? For life itself.

Let the Right One In Summary

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge bestseller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend; and a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.

Let the Right One In Reviews

a terrifying supernatural story yet also a moving account of friendship and salvation...Lindqvist's dark fable would be gratuitously violent if it weren't so intelligently written...devastating conclusion - The Guardian Lindqvist's great strength as a writer is his evocation of time and place. The cheapjack monotony of Oskar's existence is as vividly realised as the scenes of gore splattered mayhem...it justifies its cult status in Scandinavia with its disturbing and convincing take on the banal horror of normality - Time Out Reminiscent of Stephen King at his best, there are some truly scary bits in the book that will haunt your dreams. Best read by sunlight - Independent On Sunday Fascinatingly, Lindqvist has reinvented the vampire novel and made it all the more chilling by setting it in the kind of sink estate we all know from the media. No mean achievement. Let The Right One In is an immensely readable and highly disturbing book in which grim levels of gore and violence are tempered by an unexpected tenderness - Daily Express There's a whiff of 'the new Stephen King' about the author who combines an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Stockholm in 1981 with a shocking (and very gory) thriller. His vampire is an original, both heart-breakingly pathetic and terrifying. This was a bestseller in Sweden and could be equally big here. Don't miss it - The Times

About John Ajvide Lindqvist

John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish author, born in 1968. He grew up in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm. He wanted to become something awful and fantastic. First he became a conjurer and came in second in the Nordic card trick championship. Then he was a stand-up comedian for twelve years. Let the Right One In is his first novel. His second novel, The Handling of the Undead is currently being translated into English.

Additional information

GOR001323742
9781847241696
1847241697
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quercus Publishing
20070802
528
N/A
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