The girl with the dragon tattoo / Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2009.Description: 590 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780307454546
- 823 LAR
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 823 LAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100651190 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: "Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson's first novel" ( The New York Times ). * Also known as the Millennium series
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons !
Originally published as: Män som hatar kvinnor. Stockholm : Norstedt, 2005.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004, Stieg Larsson finished three detective novels in his Millenium series.Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. In the middle of the 1980s he helped start the anti-violence project "Stop the Racism". This was followed by the founding of the Expo foundation in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed the chief editor of Expo, a magazine published by the organization.
(Bowker Author Biography)