Resin

by Ane Riel

Paperback, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

839.8138

Collection

Publication

Doubleday (2018), 288 pages

Description

The multi-award-winning international bestseller. Suspenseful and heart-breaking, Resinis the story of what can happen when you love someone too much - when your desire to keep them safe becomes the thing that could irrevocably harm them. * Liv died when she was just six years old. Her father knew he was the only one who could keep her safe in this world. So one evening he left the isolated house his little family called home, he pushed their boat out to sea and watched it ruin on the rocks. Then he walked the long way into town to report his only child missing. But behind the boxes and the baskets crowding her Dad's workshop, Liv was hiding. This way her Dad had said, she'd never have to go to school; this way, she'd never have to leave her parents. This way, Liv would be safe. * Winner of Scandinavia's most prestigious awards-The Glass Key, The Golden Bullet, Best Crime Novel from the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy and The Harald Mogensen Award.… (more)

Awards

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2020)
Glass Key Award (Winner — 2016)
DR Romanprisen (Nominee — 2016)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2015

Physical description

288 p.

ISBN

0857525468 / 9780857525468

Local notes

August 9, 2018

A story of what can happen when you love someone too much. Liv's father reports to the authorities that she died when she was just six years old. But behind the boxes and the baskets crowding her Dad’s workshop, Liv was hiding. This way her Dad had said, she’d never have to go to school; this way, she’d never have to leave her parents. This way, Liv would be safe.

Goldsboro book of the month club (August 2018). Signed, limited to 750 copies.
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