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Harbor (2008)

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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"From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes.One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears -- either into thin air or under thin ice -- leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realises that people are not telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. What is happening in Domaro, and what power does the sea have over the town's inhabitants? As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath"--… (more)
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Me: you got the stuff?
John Ajvide: (slides a paper bag labelled “Loving daddies and granddads” across the counter)
  unsurefooted | Feb 25, 2024 |
Hasta ahora las novelas de Lindqvist no me han decepcionado, y ésta no es la excepción. Su terror es siempre humano, lleno de miedos y de dolor que sobrepasan lo sobrenatural; en cada una de sus novelas ha logrado transportarme, en este caso estuve en el desolado Domaro.

En realidad, no creó justo que a Lindqvist se le comparé con King, ambos son escritores, sí de terror, pero muy distintos, y cada uno merece un lugar especial dentro de este género.

El único pero que le pongo a esta novela, nada tiene que ver con la novela misma, sino con la traducción, bastante "local" a mi gusto y con varias erratas, me pregunto si la versión impresa tiene el mismo problema. Volviendo a la traducción, no entiendo por qué las editoriales insisten en traducir sólo al español de España y enviarlo a otros países donde no tenemos los mismos modismos.

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  uvejota | Jul 26, 2023 |
Just finished Människorhamn by John Ajvide Lindqvist and this was the very first book I've read by the author, and I really, really like this book. I both listened to the audio version (read by the author himself) and read the book, sitting outside in the sun (far away from water). This is a perfect book for those that love reading books with a paranormal angle. ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
This is the best Lovecraftian horror I've read since Lovecraft, and even better than most-to-all of Lovecraft. I won an ARC of it from Tor, and promptly spent 6-7 years _not_ reading Harbor, which I now regret. ( )
  Azuaron | Mar 1, 2022 |
Meh - It was good but it was plodding and slow. I would recommend it for people who like that type of writing but for others, pass on it. ( )
  Drunken-Otter | Aug 20, 2021 |
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Den stockholmske skjærgården beskrives stort sett alltid som en idyll med strålende solskinn og blått hav og uendelige, late sommerdager. Men det var før John Ajvide Lindqvist skrev en bredt anlagt skrekkroman fra Roslagen, ei bok som kaster lange, mørke skygger over både farbror Melker og Evert Taube.
added by annek49 | editDagbladet, Kurt Hanssen (Dec 17, 2008)
 
De dødes hav : «Menneskehavn» er nok en strålende roman fra John Ajvide Lindqvist, en velopplagt, potent fortelling som er både grøssende og rørende.
 
Skumlest av alt er kjærligheten : Hvem skulle tro at skrekkindustriens språk kan brukes til å skrive en uhyre effektfull og gripende roman om grenseløs kjærlighet?
 
Existentiell grundforskning : SORG OCH SAKNAD Trots gengångare och magi är skräckinslagen nedtonade i John Ajvide Lindqvists nya roman. Hans perfekta gehör för miljöer och stämningar går igen från de tidigare romanerna ­liksom förmågan att berätta
 
Människohamn hakar tag direkt, och en föreställningsvärld där liv kräver död, offer sin belöning och brott straffar sig verkar lika rimlig som den förtvivlade pappans övertygelse om att dottern finns kvar i det skeva huset de bodde i på ön, och meddelar sig med honom på olika rörande sätt.
 

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John Ajvide Lindqvistprimary authorall editionscalculated
Delargy, MarlaineTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rhind-Tutt, JulianNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sybesma, EdithTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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"From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes.One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears -- either into thin air or under thin ice -- leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realises that people are not telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. What is happening in Domaro, and what power does the sea have over the town's inhabitants? As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath"--

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They only stopped watching her for a matter of minutes. Which was all it took.

On a clear winter's day, Anders took his wife and feisty six-year-old, Maja, for a walk from his home on the island across the frozen sea to the lighthouse at Gavasten. There was no one for miles around, so they stayed to admire the view while Maja struck out alone.

They never saw her again.

Two years later and Anders' wife has left him, he's an unemployable alcoholic, so he returns to what's left of his family on the island. Moving back to the hut where he'd been staying with Maja that last time, he soon begins to feel a presence in the house. Could Maja be trying to communicate with him? Someone — or something — is leaving him messages and he can feel them getting stronger.

Before long, it's not just a feeling and Anders starts seeing people who've been missing for years. Is it the drink or is he going mad?

When he realizes Maja's is just the last in a long line of disappearances and that his fellow islanders know a lot more than they'll admit, he digs deeper and unearths a dark and deadly secret at the heart of the community — an ancient evil, which he'll be forced to awaken if he's going to find out the fate of his beloved daughter.
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2 editions of this book were published by Penguin Australia.

Editions: 1921656670, 192175866X

 

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