Salander's character, and her appeal to readers, isn't about sex. It's about her resilience in the face of adversity -- significant adversity. It's about her persistent and dogged will to see justice done.
What good fiction does whether it's a Bible story, a fairytale, a popular children's serie, or a detective thriller is to invite the reader to identify with a flawed human being who faces harrowing choices and odds.
In other words: Sweden. Even better, it's Stockholm, a k a the place where Stieg Larsson lived, died and somehow managed to write his blockbuster Mill...
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In "The Girl Who Played with Fire" -- the second book of best-selling Millenium Triology by Stieg Larsson -- the character Lisbeth Salander moves into...
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In the UK paper The Guardian, Deborah Orr reports that the top five bestsellers on the Times of London list all had "girl" in the title: Steig Larsson...
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Because Larsson never made a will, everything he owned, including the rights to his work, passed to his father and brother.
The woman who was at his ...