The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By: Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.
Contributors: Keeland, Reg, 1943-
Edition: 1st large print ed. (1)
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 793
ISBN-13: 9780739384152
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Missing persons -- Sweden -- Fiction; Rich people -- Sweden -- Fiction; Corruption -- Sweden -- Fiction; Sweden -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Män som hatar kvinnor.
Description: It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden...and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.

It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance...and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age, who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism, and an unexpected connection between themselves.

Contagiously exciting, it's about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.
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Notes: U.S.