Stieg Larsson, "The girl with the dragon tatoo"

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Fiche de lecture en Anglais du premier livre de la trilogie millénium : Les hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes.

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[...] In reality, he is recruited to solve a cold case, this one of Vanger's niece : Harriet, vanished 44 years sooner. In return, the former CEO of the Vanger Companies gives him a financial aid, but not only, since he also promises him information on Hans-Erik Wennerström - this one who has brought this libel case - to prove he is corrupt and thus give a revenge to Blomkvist. In fact, Henri Vanger thinks that a member of his family would have been able to murder his niece, on the family's private island. [...]

[...] He met Eva Gabrielsson at an anti-Vietnam War meeting at the age of 18. They lived together until Stieg's death in 2004. He travelled a lot through Africa, after his military service, without much money so that he had to work as a dishwasher and sold his clothes to afford a ticket home from Algeria, for example. The couple lived under constant threat during the 15 last years of their life. When a labor-union leader was murdered in his home by neo-Nazis in 1999, the police discovered photos of and information about the couple in the murderer's apartment. [...]

[...] His story, in the novel, begins with the libel case he loses. He is the one who is going to lead investigation on Harriet's vanishing. But he is not alone, since he is going to meet the second main character who he will form a nice pair of detectives with : Lisbeth Salander. Lisbeth Salander ("The girl with the dragon tatoo") : Lisbeth is very particular and interesting; an unusual character we want to learn more about. She's a kind of investigator, hacker and asocial person, all mixed up. [...]

[...] He is finally the reason why Blomkvist leads investigation on Harriet's vanishing because he has put him in a difficult situation, about blomkvist's magazine future. Style The style is not revolutionnary, even almost basic, but there are already much information, many details so, thus, it is surely easier to understand, and not to lose oneself. Moreover, as Stieg Larsson says, this is entairtainment literature, so the style is in perfect line with the goal : entertainment. The author : Stieg Larsson' biography Karl Stig-Erland Larsson, better known behind the name of Stieg Larsson, was born on 15th August 1954 in Skelleftehamn. [...]

[...] Summary : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson) Introduction This novel is the first opus of the Millennium trilogy. With the two others, they were only published after their author's death, in November 2004, and became best-sellers in several countries. Their author : Stieg Larsson, a swedish journalist and writer born sixty years sooner and who posthumously was awarded the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award in 2008. His novel whose original title is Män som hatar kvinnor won Sweden's Glass Key Award in 2006 and the 2008 Boeke Prize. [...]