Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In
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Published:
22 January, 2009
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Description
**The international bestseller and the book behind the film and play Let Me In**
Let the Right One In Season 1 premieres Saturday, 8th October 2022 on Paramount+ UK.
'The new Stephen King' The Times
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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781847248480 |
| ISBN10 | 1847248489 |
| Number Of Pages | 528 |
| Item Weight | 360 g |
| Product Dimensions | 126 x 198 x 42 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Quercus Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A terrifying supernatural story yet also a moving account of friendship and salvation * Guardian *
The new Stephen King. Don't miss it * The Times *
Lindqvist has reinvented the vampire novel and made it all the more chilling by setting it in the kind of sink estate we all know from the media. Immensely readable and highly disturbing * Daily Express *
Some truly scary bits ... will haunt your dreams. Best read by sunlight * Independent on Sunday *
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Author's Bio
John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish author, born in 1968. He grew up in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm. He wanted to become something awful and fantastic. First he became a conjurer and came in second in the Nordic card trick championship. Then he was a stand-up comedian for twelve years, before writing Let the Right One In. That novel became a phenomenal international bestseller and was made into a film and a West End play, both called Let Me In. His books are published in twenty-nine countries worldwide.