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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  
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Author Stieg Larsson
Original title Män som hatar kvinnor
Translator Reg Keeland, pseudonym of Steven T. Murray
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Series Millennium Trilogy
Genre(s) Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher Norstedts Förlag (Swedish)
Publication date 2005
Media type Print (Paperback & Hardback)
ISBN ISBN 978-91-1-301408-1 (Swedish)
ISBN 978-1-84724-253-2 (English)
OCLC Number 186764078
Followed by The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: "Män som hatar kvinnor" - "Men Who Hate Women") is an award-winning crime novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the first in his "Millennium Trilogy".
.At his death in November 2004 he left three unpublished novels that made up the trilogy.^ The movie is the first of three to be made by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev from the three finished books Larsson left behind.
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 ^ He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in November 2004, some time before the publication of his debut crime novel and first part of the Millennium Trilogy.
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 ^ He finished three detective novels prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in 2004.
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 .It became a posthumous best-seller in several European countries.^ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became a Europe-wide best-seller.
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 ^ The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” published in Sweden in 2005, became an international best seller.
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Contents

Introduction

.This novel supplies a genealogical table of five generations of a particular family named Vanger who are under investigation, which is for keeping track of the large number of family members.^ There are far too many members of the Vanger family to keep track of.  I like genealogy when it comes to my own family, but when it's someone else's family, especially in a suspense novel, too many characters are distracting and unnecessary.
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 ^ They meet when Blomkvist is approached by rich industrialist, Henrik Vanger, to investigate the long-ago disappearance of his great-niece from a family gathering.
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 ^ Henrik Vanger, an octogenarian industrialist, hires Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who has just lost a libel case under murky circumstances, to investigate the disappearance of his great-niece, Harriet.
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.An epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents, the novel takes in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family.^ This first novel of a trilogy more than satisfied all I look for in a thriller/crime novel.The plot concerns itself with a complicated international financial fraud, and the buried evil past of a wealthy incestuous Swedish industrial family.As the novel progresses a male journalist and young female emotionally disturbed punk hacker join forces to investigate both strands of the plot.In their different ways both of these main characters are engaging ,and I am excited to see how their relationship develops in the two further novels.
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 ^ This gargantuan tale of serial murder of the most sickening kind and corporate skullduggery spanning continents has about as much in common with Agatha Christie's or Dorothy Sayers's sedate whodunits as Tolstoy does with Enid Blyton - at least at first glance.
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 ^ Murder, family secrets, journalism, corruption, the Swedish foster care system, layered characters, computer hackers, good food, and descriptive weather.
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 .Through its main character, it also references classic forbears of the crime thriller genre while it stylistically follows and mixes aspects of the sub-genres.^ It is a brilliant novel with wlel observed characters who have much more depth than those in the average thriller/crime novel.
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 .There are mentions of Astrid Lindgren, Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers; as well as Sue Grafton, Val McDermid, Elizabeth George, Sara Paretsky, and several other key figures in the history of the detective novel.^ In fact, Blyton gets a flying mention, along with Christie and Sayers, as well as Sue Grafton, Val McDiarmid, Sara Paretsky and several other key figures in the history of the detective novel.
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 ^ This gargantuan tale of serial murder of the most sickening kind and corporate skullduggery spanning continents has about as much in common with Agatha Christie's or Dorothy Sayers's sedate whodunits as Tolstoy does with Enid Blyton - at least at first glance.
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 ^ The tongue-in-cheek story was written by an older female columnist and contained references to the young detective in Astrid Lindgren's books for children.
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 .As a journalist and magazine editor in Stockholm until his death, Larsson reveals a knowledge and enjoyment of both English and American crime fiction.^ Stieg Larsson, who was a journalist and magazine editor in Stockholm until his recent untimely death, obviously relished English and American crime fiction.
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 ^ Larsson’s murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron.
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 ^ Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Expo from 1999, and had previously worked at a major news agency for many years.
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 .He declared that he wrote his opus in the evening after work for his own pleasure.^ Writing in the evening after work for his own pleasure, he must have revelled in creating his own vast smorgasbord of crime-novel conventions in this trilogy, avoiding both parody and homage by a whisker.
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.The towns mentioned are real, with the exception of Hedestad, and the Millennium magazine featured in the books parallels Larsson's own Expo magazine in the real world, which also had financial difficulties and where he was journalist and editor.^ Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), an investigative journalist and editor of Millennium magazine, is summoned to the home of Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), head of a family of industrialists.
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 ^ Larsson’s murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron.
  • The Book Bench Reads: Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”: The Book Bench : The New Yorker 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Expo from 1999, and had previously worked at a major news agency for many years.
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Plot summary

.A middle-aged journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm.^ Carrying the book is an unlikely double act: Mikael Blom-kvist, a disgraced middle-aged journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker with a taste for body art.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, By Stieg Larsson, trans Reg Keeland - Reviews, Books - The Independent 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

 ^ Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), an investigative journalist and editor of Millennium magazine, is summoned to the home of Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), head of a family of industrialists.
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.variety.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Larsson’s murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron.
  • The Book Bench Reads: Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”: The Book Bench : The New Yorker 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]

 .In the opening courtroom drama, Blomkvist loses a libel case brought by accused Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström, and this has serious repercussions for the future of Millennium.^ The court had just ruled that Blomkvist had libelled and defamed the financier Hans-Erik Wennerström.
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 ^ Wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger wants to find out what happened to his niece and, in return, he will help Mikael fight a libel case.
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 ^ Journalist Mikael Blomkvist of the magazine Millennium was sentenced this morning to 90 days in gaol for aggravated libel of industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström.
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 .In disgrace, Blomkvist agrees to be hired by Henrik Vanger, the aged former CEO of the Vanger companies, owned by a wealthy but dysfunctional dynasty.^ They meet when Blomkvist is approached by rich industrialist, Henrik Vanger, to investigate the long-ago disappearance of his great-niece from a family gathering.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, By Stieg Larsson, trans Reg Keeland - Reviews, Books - The Independent 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

 ^ Henrik Vanger, an octogenarian industrialist, hires Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who has just lost a libel case under murky circumstances, to investigate the disappearance of his great-niece, Harriet.
  • Book Review - 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,' by Stieg Larsson - Review - NYTimes.com 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.nytimes.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger wants to find out what happened to his niece and, in return, he will help Mikael fight a libel case.
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 .The old man offers not only to help his financially strapped magazine, but also to give him information to prove that Wennerström is corrupt.^ Blomqvist, a financial journalist for Millenium magazine, is due to serve a three-month prison sentence soon for libeling a man he accused of criminal activity.
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 ^ In exchange for information on his niece, Vanger promises Blomkvist enough dirt to take down the rich man who is sending him to jail.
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 .Officially, he is to spend a year writing the Vanger family history.^ There he discovers that the Vanger clan has enough criminal perversions in its history, the least of which is Nazism, to make the Addams Family look like the Brady Bunch.
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 ^ Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago.
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 ^ Vanger wants to find his great-niece who had disappeared forty years previously on the family estate in the country.
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.Blomkvist's real mission, however, is to solve a cold case—the disappearance, some forty years previously, of Vanger's niece Harriet when she was sixteen.^ In the first volume, Mikael is asked to look into the 40-year-old disappearance of Harriet Vanger, who vanished from her family's remote island retreat near Stockholm.
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 ^ He's forced to take a strange but lucrative assignment from Wennerstrom's rival industrialist, octogenarian Henrik Vanger – to investigate the disappearance of Vanger's 16-year-old niece in 1966 in the remote northern town of Hedested.
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 ^ Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago.
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 Blomkvist encounters "the old Miss Marple closed-room scenario" with all the rich suspects marooned on the family estate on an island, "a village we grow familiar with, full of hostile locals peering out from behind their curtains".[1]
.Blomkvist reads crime novelists Sue Grafton, Val McDermid and Elizabeth George and enjoys amateur sleuthing and investigative journalism, all of which assists him with Henrik Vanger's investigation.^ Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), an investigative journalist and editor of Millennium magazine, is summoned to the home of Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), head of a family of industrialists.
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 ^ Blomkvist then meets Henrik Vanger ( Sven-Bertil Taube ), the elderly former CEO of a group of companies owned by a wealthy dynasty.
  • Cinema: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo lacks Swedish suspense - the European magazine ~ Cafebabel 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.cafebabel.com [Source type: General]

 ^ They meet when Blomkvist is approached by rich industrialist, Henrik Vanger, to investigate the long-ago disappearance of his great-niece from a family gathering.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, By Stieg Larsson, trans Reg Keeland - Reviews, Books - The Independent 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

 .The locked-room scenario applies since the island on that fateful day was sealed off from the mainland due to a road-tanker crash on the only bridge.^ On the day of the girl's disappearance in 1966, the bridge to the mainland was blocked by a traffic accident, and Hedeby Island itself was chock-a-block with Vangers present for a family dinner.
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 ^ It is, in Blomkvist's words, a "locked-room mystery in island format".
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, By Stieg Larsson - Reviews, Books - The Independent 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

 .Henrik Vanger believes that Harriet (his brother's granddaughter) was murdered by one of his family members on the island.^ Henrik says he’s certain that someone in his family murdered Harriet.
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 ^ In the first volume, Mikael is asked to look into the 40-year-old disappearance of Harriet Vanger, who vanished from her family's remote island retreat near Stockholm.
  • Review | 'American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century' - Living - MiamiHerald.com 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.miamiherald.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago.
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 .In addition, Harriet had given Henrik a present of pressed flowers every year since she was eight years old.^ LIGAYA: The pressed flowers that arrived each year on the millionaire’s birthday gave it away: I thought from the beginning that his niece was the only one who could be sending them.
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 ^ The temporary job he accepts the on this remote island involves the search for Harriet Vanger, Henrik's niece who disappeared from the island when she was sixteen--thirty-seven years ago.
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 ^ Nearly 40 years earlier, Harriet vanished from a small island mostly owned by the Vanger family, and Henrik has never gotten over it.
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 .On Henrik's birthday the year after Harriet's vanishing, he again received a present of pressed flowers, and he continued to receive such flowers, sent from various parts of the world, which he believes to be sent by the killer.^ Yet, every year on his birthday, he receives a mysterious gift of a pressed flower, mimicking a gift his missing grandniece used to give him when she lived there.
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 ^ LIGAYA: The pressed flowers that arrived each year on the millionaire’s birthday gave it away: I thought from the beginning that his niece was the only one who could be sending them.
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 ^ Nearly 40 years earlier, Harriet vanished from a small island mostly owned by the Vanger family, and Henrik has never gotten over it.
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Blomkvist comes to feel that he can discover nothing new. .But the title character of the story now appears—Lisbeth Salander, an asocial punk who has been victimized and/or misunderstood by authorities throughout her life, but who also happens to be a brilliant computer hacker.^ His sidekick, the resourceful Lisbeth Salander, who hates to be compared to Pippi Longstocking (thereby making the comparison for us), is even more complicated.
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 ^ "Tattoo" features an eerily intriguing heroine — Lisbeth Salander, a lone-wolf computer hacker with a tortured past and an uncanny knack for worming her way into anyone's data banks.
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 ^ The fierce heart of this novel is Lisbeth Salander: the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who teamed up with crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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 .By chance, she meets Blomkvist and the unlikely couple form a classic detective pair.^ A classic odd-couple detective duo head to a Swedish island to solve a 30-year-old mystery .
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 .When Blomkvist teams up with Salander, their delving into family secrets sheds a disturbing and shocking light on the four-decade-long puzzle.^ He hires Blomkvist, whose investigations into the case reveal a violent family with a past marred by nazism, alcohol abuse and sadism.
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 ^ After a nasty plot detour involving a lawyer foolish enough to try to take advantage of her, Salander teams with Blomkvist to solve the mystery of Harriet’s disappearance.
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 ^ As they delve deeper into the past they uncover the horrible history of the Vanger family Best news?
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Characters

.
  • Mikael Blomkvist, journalist, publisher of Millennium magazine, and amateur sleuth.^ Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), an investigative journalist and editor of Millennium magazine, is summoned to the home of Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), head of a family of industrialists.
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     ^ Larsson’s murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron.
    • The Book Bench Reads: Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”: The Book Bench : The New Yorker 19 September 2009 15:55 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]

     ^ The Millennium trilogy, of which The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the opening instalment, features a classic odd-couple duo: a crusading financial journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, and a freelance private investigator, Lisbeth Salander.
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     .He has been compared to "Kalle Blomkvist" (in English Bill Bergson).
  • Lisbeth Salander, violent and antisocial but extremely intelligent hacker and researcher, specialized in investigations of persons.^ His sidekick, the resourceful Lisbeth Salander, who hates to be compared to Pippi Longstocking (thereby making the comparison for us), is even more complicated.
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     ^ The Swedish author who died in 2002 and who was best known internationally for her character Pippi Longstocking wrote, among her other works, a children’s book about an idealistic young boy called Kalle Blomkvist (translated into English as Bill Bergson), jokingly called ‘the great detective’.
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     ^ The Millennium trilogy, of which The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the opening instalment, features a classic odd-couple duo: a crusading financial journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, and a freelance private investigator, Lisbeth Salander.
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     She has been compared to "Pippi Longstocking".[4]
  • Henrik Vanger, retired industrialist and former CEO of Vanger Corporation.
  • Hans-Erik Wennerström, corrupt Swedish industrialist and Blomkvist's nemesis.
  • Harriet Vanger, niece of Henrik and vanished 40 years ago.
  • Martin Vanger, brother of Harriet and President of the Vanger Corporation.
  • Holger Palmgren, lawyer, and earlier guardian of Lisbeth Salander.
  • Nils Bjurman, corrupt lawyer and guardian of Lisbeth Salander after Holger Palmgren suffers a brain hemorrhage.
  • Cecilia Vanger, daughter of Harald Vanger, one of Henrik's nieces.
  • Erika Berger, editor of Millennium, friend and occasional lover of Blomkvist.
  • Dirch Frode, lawyer for Vanger Corporation, and main friend and assistant to Henrik Vanger.
  • Dragan Armanski, director of Milton Security, boss and protector of Lisbeth Salander.

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As well as literary references to the genre's classic forerunners, Larsson comments on contemporary Swedish society. .Reviewer Dessaix reports that "His favourite targets are violence against women, the incompetence and cowardice of investigative journalists, the moral bankruptcy of big capital and the virulent strain of Nazism still festering away ..."^ But there is a larger point here: how are we to read Blomkvist’s relationships given the surrounding story of violence against women?
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 in Swedish society.[1]
There are many similarities between the book and Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!, which also focuses on a writer (called Michael) who is employed by a member of a wealthy family to write a discrediting family memoir and investigate a decades-old crime. Both books deal with issues of corporate corruption, presenting a negative view of market speculators and laissez-faire economics.
He further enters the debate as to how responsible a criminal is for his or her crimes and how much is blamed on upbringing or society. He has Salander say, "It's as if we no longer believe anyone has a will of their own."[1] Salander has a strong will and assumes that everyone else does, too. .She is portrayed as having suffered every kind of abuse in her young life, including sexual assault and time in a psychiatric clinic.^ Salander has suffered enormous sexual and emotional abuse and has withdrawn to the point that she trusts no one.
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 .Since she holds others responsible for their actions she takes revenge on those who behave badly – which moves the plot along.^ The focus narrows pretty quickly, but I guess Larsson has so many plot points going at that stage that he needs to move things along.
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 .Salander, sullen, single-minded and sometimes vicious, is also incorruptible, a complete contrast to even the good guys in Larsson's world.^ Larsson's multi-pieced plot snaps together as neatly as an Ikea bookcase, but even more satisfying is the anti-social character of Salander ...
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Reception and awards

.As a tale of contemporary culture and corruption, the novel was released to great acclaim in Sweden and later, on its publication in many European countries.^ This is a totally engrossing novel ,full of suspense,characterisation, and intelligent insights into contemporary culture and corruption.
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 .In the original language it won Sweden's Glass Key Award in 2006 for best crime novel of the year, and won the 2008 Boeke Prize.^ I'm thinking this could be remembered as the best crime novel of 2008 A...
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 ^ The second volume in the so-called Millennium Series, it won the Swedish Crime Fiction Academy Award as the year's best Swedish crime novel of 2006.
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 ^ So it may not be the best crime novel nor the best novel but its a interesting holiday read.
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Larsson was posthumously awarded the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for International Author of the Year in 2008.[5]

Film adaptations

.The Swedish film production company Yellow Bird produced a film version of the Millennium Trilogy –The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo along with the other novels in the trilogy, The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish title: "Flickan som lekte med elden") and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Swedish title: "Luftslottet som sprängdes", "The Air Castle that Blew Up").^ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a striking novel.
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 ^ The Girl Who Played with Fire 4.5 out of 5 stars ( 109 ) £3.86 .
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 ^ The Girl Who Played with Fire $12.94 .
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 .The films are co-produced with Nordisk Film and TV company,[6] with Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev directing.^ (Image: ©Acte sud edition) With the exception of its Danish director Niels Arden Oplev , the film is an entirely Swedish production.
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 ^ The trilogy is in the process of being filmed, with the first book being filmed in 2008, by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev.
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 The films are in the Swedish language.
.Filming began in early 2008, and Men Who Hate Women (the film title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), opened in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland in February-March 2009. So far, it has been seen by more than 2.5 million people in those countries.^ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a striking novel.
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 ^ Maybe that's why the original title of the book in Sweden was MEN WHO HATE WOMEN. I'm not kidding, that was the title.
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 ^ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an international best seller and is set in Sweden.
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 .In Norway and Denmark it is the most viewed Swedish film ever, and in Sweden total admissions are above one million.^ MACY: I have to quibble with one aspect of Salander: she’s a total victim who then becomes an aggressor, managing to overcome in ways that most victims cannot.
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 ^ In Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany the books have sold unlike anything else, in millions upon millions .
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.The films have been sold to Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Poland, and the United States.^ In Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany the books have sold unlike anything else, in millions upon millions .
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 .Quercus Books, the series' British publishers, advised on 21 January 2010 that the film will open in the UK on 12 March.^ The Gathering Storm Book 12: Wheel of Time Series Robert Jordan with Brandon Sanderson .
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 It had the American premier on March 6, 2010 at the Miami Film Festival under the name "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
Men Who Hate Women opened in France on 13 May, and in Italy and Spain on 29 May 2009.
.The Girl Who Played with Fire opened simultaneously in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark on 18 September 2009, and one week later in Finland.^ The Girl Who Played with Fire 4.5 out of 5 stars ( 109 ) £3.86 .
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 ^ Listen to Mary Ann Gwinn on King FM's Web site Sign up for our Books newsletter Books RSS feed Sorry for the pun, but one of this August's hottest books is "The Girl Who Played With Fire" (Knopf), the follow-up to 2008's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
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 ^ The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic, right-wing extremist and Nazi ...more Best price: $22.45 .
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest was released 27 November 2009 in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and in Finland in January 2010.
.There are rumors about a Hollywood version of the first novel.^ A million Europeans can't be wrong, and I'd be dishonest to say there's nothing worthwhile about this novel that is so popular across the pond.
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 [7][8] .Yellow Bird executive producer Søren Stærmose confirmed in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Expressen that negotiations for such a version are taking place.^ It takes a little effort to get accustomed to all the Swedish names and places but then the story moves with lightening speed.
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 These would not be simply US remakes of the Swedish films, but rather new Hollywood films based on the books. In the interview, Stærmose stated that the US films might be produced similar to the Yellow Bird co-produced Wallander TV Show starring Kenneth Branagh, shooting in Sweden using English-speaking actors. .He also said that it is up to the director, and the story could just as well take place in another country, such as Canada.^ It takes a little effort to get accustomed to all the Swedish names and places but then the story moves with lightening speed.
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 ^ I can't find a single positive thing to say about the book except that the galley was well-bound and is no longer taking up space on my bookshelf.
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 [9] .According to The Guardian, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt are all interested in playing the central role of Mikael Blomkvist; and producer Søren Stærmose of Yellow Bird, who holds the screen rights to the books, has been approached by directors including Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, and Martin Scorsese.^ The "Millenium" magazine featured in the books exists in the real world as "EXPO", and Mikael Blomkvist is clearly the author's alter ego.
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 ^ The plot revolves around journalist Mikael Blomkvist who is hired to investigate a case involving a missing girl.
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 ^ Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist who got tricked into slander.
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 [10][11] On December 16, 2009 leading Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported that Sony Pictures Entertainment are in final negotiating with Yellow Bird about the film rights according to Yellow Bird Managing Director Mikael Wallén. Steve Zaillian has been in discussions to adapt the first book.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Dessaix, Robert (2008-02-22). "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/2008/02/22/1203467362919.html. Retrieved 2009-06-27. 
  2. ^ Nils Andersson review
  3. ^ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/crime/article3209734.ece Timesonline Jan 18, 2008, Marcel Berlins]
  4. ^ Review of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in The Chicago Tribune
  5. ^ Allen, Katie (2008-10-06). "Rankin and P D James pick up ITV3 awards". theBookseller.com. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/68347-rankin-and-p-d-james-pick-up-itv3-awards.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06. 
  6. ^ Nordisk Film & TV Fond Yellow Bird Puts SEK 106m Millennium Project In Production
  7. ^ http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book17-2008sep17,0,1347517.story
  8. ^ http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=43157&Category=
  9. ^ http://www.expressen.se/noje/film/1.1468965/nu-planeras-en-amerikansk-version-av-millenium
  10. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/stieg-larsson-thriller-novels-sweden
  11. ^ http://www.expressen.se/noje/1.1652378/de-kan-fa-rollen-som-mikael-blomkvist
  12. ^ http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/millennium-trilogin-till-hollywood_3948349.svd
  13. ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if667a78777fe70e11a6c9ce587998a4a

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Publication details

  • 2005, Swedish, Norstedts (ISBN 978-91-1-301408-1), pub date August? 2005, paperback (poss 1st edition)
  • 2008, UK, MacLehose Press, (Quercus Imprint) (ISBN 978-1-84724-253-2), pub date 10 January 2008, hardback (trans as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Reg Keeland)
  • 2008, US, Alfred A. Knopf (ISBN 978-0-307-26975-1), pub date 16 September 2008, hardback
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
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