A story with similarities to melancholia and with a voice as clear as john green s.
The home mats strandberg.
We feel an ice cold chill.
Once inseparable joel and nina haven t spoken in twenty years when joel.
Mats strandberg born 1976 is a swedish author.
This is a brilliant story svt strandberg s ability to capture everyday life and environments and to create personalities wins.
Psychology guilt and painful secrets tara the home gives me goosebumps along my arms all the way up my shoulders and shows that there is no need for armies of aliens zombies or blood sucking foxes.
With the home mats strandberg nails his position as one of the best swedish horror writers.
Mats strandberg is marvellous when he lets us feel the approaching catastrophe.
Mats strandberg is a literary cult waiting to happen.
With the home mats strandberg nails his position as one of the best swedish horror writers skanska dagbladet.
Something s not quite right in a care home in mats strandberg s the home by burt peterson 09 09 20 16 861.
With a never failing humanism and a deep understanding of the genre the home is the true proof that sweden has a new horror king city swe mats strandberg is marvellous when he lets us feel the approaching catastrophe.
Strandberg has been a columnist in aftonbladet.
We feel an ice cold chill.
His debut novel was jaktsäsong published in 2006.
A must read for fans of stephen king and john ajvide lindqvist let the right one in elizabeth hand author of generation loss and hard light strandberg s ability to capture everyday life and environments and to create personalities wins sveriges radio very cinematic and with characters who have real psychological depth.
He preferred the grimm fairytales over the disney versions and when he was ten years old he discovered stephen king.
His young adult fantasy novel cirkeln the first book in the engelsfors trilogy written together with sara bergmark elfgren and published in 2011 was an august prize nominee in the youth literature category.
He devoured these terrifying stories with much gusto while breaking out in stress related hives.
So when i stumbled upon the home by mats strandberg i couldn t help but to click the request button on netgalley and i was delighted when i received an email not long afterwards informing me that i had been accepted.
When mats strandberg re enters the scene of ya he does it with at pre apocalyptic story at the end of the world.
I could not wait to see what mats strandberg had in store for me.
Mats strandberg scares his readers in a most refined way.
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After two extremely successful horror novels for the adult audience mats strandberg is back with his first ya novel since the engelsfors trilogy.
