Broken - Softcover

Fossum, Karin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846550610 ISBN 13: 9781846550614

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2008

Synopsis

A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospecctive characters. So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking in to her house to make her tell it. She creates Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, who works in an art gallery. He lives a quiet, dutiful life, carefully designed to avoid surprise. One winter's day all this begins to change, when an emaciated young heroin addict walks into the gallery. A kind man, Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. She returns some weeks later to his place of work, and then one day appears on his doorstep demanding to be let in. Interspersed with the chapters of Alvar's story are his encounters with its author - the frantic attempts of a fictional man trying to control his own destiny. Karin Fossum is a author of the Inspector Sejer mysteries.

About this title

Review:

"A superb writer of psychological suspense."-"New York Times"

Book Description:

A chilling tale about the danger of good intentions from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Sejer series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1846550610
• ISBN 13: 9781846550614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272