The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of his Window and Disappeared.
I usually find fiction that uses real people and historical events at least intriguing -- see the Real People in Works of Fiction-under-review index -- but this is one of the most feeble efforts in that regard I've come across in a while.
I was a bit surprised that this bestselling novel took so long to find US and UK publishers -- and especially that Hesperus was able to land rights in the UK (see Dalya Alberge's piece in The Guardian, Swedish bestseller has the last laugh), but the fact that they didn't go for it actually speaks for the majors (well ... in the US it did land at HarperCollins imprint Hyperion -- albeit only as a paperback original).
I usually find fiction that uses real people and historical events at least intriguing -- see the Real People in Works of Fiction-under-review index -- but this is one of the most feeble efforts in that regard I've come across in a while.
I was a bit surprised that this bestselling novel took so long to find US and UK publishers -- and especially that Hesperus was able to land rights in the UK (see Dalya Alberge's piece in The Guardian, Swedish bestseller has the last laugh), but the fact that they didn't go for it actually speaks for the majors (well ... in the US it did land at HarperCollins imprint Hyperion -- albeit only as a paperback original).