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Harbour - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Harbour
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On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to... show more
On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to Domarö to confront his despair. He slowly realises that Maja's disappearance is not the first inexplicable tragedy to strike the islanders. Nor is everyone telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets.And what is it about the sea? There's something very bad happening on Domarö. Something that involves the sea itself.As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a masterful cocktail of suspense laced with bizarre humour and a narrative that barely pauses for breath. Harbour is also a heartbreaking study of loss and guilt and a novel whose epic climax pits the infinite force of nature against the implacable love of a father for his child.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 1921656670
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
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1.0 Harbor
Ha you thought it was going to be awesome like this? You were wrong. This book is so slow and surreal. I had to force myself to finish it. I liked Let the Right One In, but this book was so boring.
altheaann
altheaann rated it
Like many people, I was introduced by ‘Let the Right One In.’ A disturbing, masterful film – and an even more disturbing book. This is the second book I’ve read by Lindqvist and, well, it’s good. It’s a well-crafted murder-thriller-horror novel with the dark elements often associated with Scandinavi...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
2.0
Not as good as the other two. Violence is used in places as an attempt to cause fear, but the violence just comes across as women bashing. Good use of mood and setting though.
Barrita
Barrita rated it
Confieso que mientras leía sentí que algo faltaba. Lindqvist hizo un gran trabajo en Let the Right One In, así que tenía ciertas expectativas. Pero se me hace un poco injusto hacer esa comparación, porque este no es un libro malo.Hay tensión y suspenso, pero no terror. Lo que me gusta es que el auto...
suzemo
suzemo rated it
3.0 Harbor
Disclaimer: I received this for free from St. Martins.This was my first book by this author. I love good, non-gore horror, so I was excited to read this book.I thoroughly enjoyed the first third (or so) of the book. The writing is beautiful and the book is wonderfully atmospheric. Both the writer...
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