![]() ![]() I felt the characterisation in this novel was excellent. They have been let out." It is not long since they were bereaved. They are together when the pain strikes, but Elvy understands what causes it and explains to Flora "It was the spirits, the souls of the dead. When he goes home, he receives a phone call telling him that the corpses are escaping from the morgue.įlora and her granddaughter Elvy share a psychic ability they describe as the Sense. She is mourning Elias, her six year-old son. Meanwhile, Mahler visits his daughter, Anna. He had not seen the white caterpillar that had come into the room and dropped on her blanket, then dug itself into her. ![]() He goes to the hospital and is sitting beside the bed where she died when suddenly her body is reanimated. Eva wants to visit her father and David has to go to work (he is a stand-up comedian.) Whilst at work, David is horrified to be told that Eva has been killed in an accident. Not only that, the inhabitants are stricken with awful headaches.ĭavid, Eva and their small son Magnus comprise a nuclear family. It becomes impossible to turn off appliances. There is an unusual electrical event in Stockholm. When one considers "zombies," no doubt one's expected classification would be "horror" but really, there is little of the commonly accepted feeling of horror in this work - unless one counts the death of a loved one. ![]() ![]() It is somewhat difficult to categorise this book, if one is intent on forcing books into genres where they may not, perhaps, be too comfortable. By John Ajvide Lindqvist and Ebba Segerberg, trans. ![]()
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