Broken

English language

Published May 2, 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-15-101366-1
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OCLC Number:
318415592

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A chilling tale about the danger of good intentions - from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Sejer seriesA woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters. So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking in to her house to make her tell it.She creates Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, who works in an art gallery. He lives a quiet, dutiful life, carefully designed to avoid surprise. One winter's day all this begins to change, when an emaciated young heroin addict walks into the gallery. A kind man, Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. She returns some weeks later to his place of work, and then one day …

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Subjects

  • Authors -- Fiction
  • Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction
  • Characters and characteristics -- Fiction