Before reading the famous Larson trilogy “Millennium”, many of us had an almost idyllic idea of Sweden. How, a prosperous European power, which built a “real socialism”, a country with the highest standard of living and social security … But Larson showed readers another Sweden, where the oligarchs rule the ball, where children and women can be abused and suffer from lawlessness, where nationalists and extremists of all stripes are confidently raising their heads. And then we think: “Probably the author thickened the colors, after all, detective novels …” But this is not so.
The articles of the Larson -journalist are, as it were, the background and the beginning of the Millennium series – after all, they were written at the same time as the trilogy itself, and they saw the light even before it. In fact, these are materials for Millennium magazine. After reading these articles, we may well understand where girls like Lisbeth Salander come from in Sweden, and their defenders are such as Michael Bloomkvist …
Author
Larson Stig
Translator
Khokhlova Ekaterina Nikolaevna
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Steg Larson. How did the millennium begin
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