9780307269751: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0307269752 ISBN 13: 9780307269751
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2008

Synopsis

A sensation across Europe&;millions of copies sold

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.

It&;s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.

It&;s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet&;s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age&;and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it&;who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism&;and an unexpected connection between themselves.

It&;s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.

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About the Author

Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscript for this and two subsequent novels.

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Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0307269752
ISBN 13 
9780307269751
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
465