Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindquist New softcover book

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

by JOHN AJVIDE LINDQUIST

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New softcover book, published 2009, 520 pages.

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.

Let the Right One In is now a feature film. It is a disturbing and brilliant reworking of the vampire legend, and a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.

About the author

John Ajvide Lindqvist (born 1968 in Blackeberg, Sweden) is a Swedish novelist and short stories author. As a teenager, Lindqvist used to perform street magic for the tourists walking on Vasterlanggatan in Stockholm. Before becoming a published writer, Lindqvist worked for twelve years as a magician and stand-up comedian.

Lindqvist's debut novel Let the Right One In, a romantic, social realistic vampire horror story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden and abroad. Handling the Undead was published in 2005 and involved the rising of zombies, or the "re-living", in the Stockholm area. In 2006, he released his third book Paper Walls, a collection of horror short stories. In 2007, his story Tindalos was published as a serial in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, and also published as a free audiobook through the newspaper's website, read by the author himself. His works are published by Ordfront and have been translated into many languages, including English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Dutch and Russian.

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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindquist