THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE’S TALONS
Karin Smirnoff
Translated by Sarah Death
MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com/)
£16.99
Coming 29th AUGUST 2023
In April last year, MacLehose Press announced that Lisbeth Salander would be returning to a bookshelf near you in 2023, penned by Scandinavian superstar Karin Smirnoff.
Here at Reader Dad we’re huge fans of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, and the subsequent books penned by David Lagercrantz. We’re delighted to be able to bring you the news that the latest Salander instalment will be released by MacLehose Press, in an English translation by Sarah Death, on 29th August 2023. You’ll find the cover, and a very intriguing synopsis below.
Let the countdown begin!
Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager – and she’s being watched.
Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumours surrounding the man she’s about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist’s last hope.
A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart.
Karin Smirnoff worked as a journalist before quitting her job to buy a wood factory in her home county in northern Sweden. Her debut novel, My Brother, was nominated for the prestigious August Prize and has been optioned for TV by the producers behind The Bridge. Two more novels followed, and the entire trilogy has now sold more than 500,000 copies in Sweden.
Sarah Death studied Swedish at Cambridge University and University College London with shorter periods at the Swedish universities of Uppsala and Växjö. She has been active as a freelance literary translator since 1987 with many full-length published works to her name. She is a three-time winner of the George Bernard Shaw Prize, most recently in 2021 for Letters from Tove, the correspondence of Tove Jansson. She has also been awarded the Swedish Academy Translation Prize 2008 and the Royal Order of the Polar Star 2014.
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