Let the Right One In - Softcover

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085738256X ISBN 13: 9780857382566

Publisher: Quercus, 2010

Synopsis

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 is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.

About this title

Review:

'A whiff of the new Stephen King. Don't miss it' The Times.

'A terrifying supernatural story yet also a moving account of friendship and salvation' Guardian.

'Some truly scary bits... will haunt your dreams. Best read by sunlight' Independent on Sunday.

'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. Immensely readable and highly disturbing' Daily Express. --Reviews.

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 085738256X
• ISBN 13: 9780857382566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480