Let the old dreams die

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.

Originaltitel
Låt de gamla drömmarna dö
Författare
John Ajvide Lindqvist
(John Ajvide Lindqvist translated by Ebba Segerberg.)
Genre
Noveller, Occult fiction., Horror fiction., Translations., Short stories., Horror tales., Paranormal fiction.
Språk
Engelska
Förlag År Ort Om boken ISBN
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2013 New York, New York vii, 400 pages 25 cm 978-0-312-62053-0
Quercus 2009 Storbritannien, London 519 sidor 978-1-84724-848-0, 978-1-84724-296-9
Quercus 2007 England, London 513 sidor. 24 cm. 978-1-84724-169-6, 978-1-84724-170-2