Synopsis
What’s the story?
It’s summer and twenty-five-year-old Hanna arrives in Madrid to work as an intern in the cavernous basement archives of the Prado Museum where Goya’s Black Paintings are housed. Everything in the Spanish city is inviting and seductive. One evening she meets a group of colourful young Swedes who have decided to maximise their time in Madrid and spend every hot summer night squeezing the life out of life. Hanna is drawn into their enchanted circle and longs for their approval. But they have resources she doesn’t, and gradually she is drawn into a web of lies and duplicity that threatens to have serious consequences. Will they realise who she really is?
Publisher – Albert Bonniers Förlag
X (Twitter) – Albert Bonniers Förlag
3 reasons why you should adapt this book into a TV series:
- For its powerful depiction of youth’s destructive naiveté and passion
- For its subtle blend of suspense and wild emotions
- For its rich and intense storytelling
Author
Author
SIGGE EKLUND is an author, screenwriter, producer, editor, director and podcaster currently residing in Los Angeles. He debuted in 1999 with his novel Synanthrope, published by Albert Bonniers Förlag. Since then, he has published several more novels, including It’s 1988 and It Just Started Snowing, Waltz of the Werewolf, The Last Myth and Into the Labyrinth. His books have been translated into 16 languages, and he is today one of our most highly acclaimed writers.
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