![]() ![]() Strandberg's ability to capture everyday life and environments and to create personalities wins * Sveriges Radio * Mats Strandberg scares his readers in a most refined way. Very cinematic, and with characters who have real psychological depth. ![]() Although it is the shimmer that stays with you when the book is over * DAGENS NYHETER (Sweden's biggest morning newspaper) * ![]() And yes, the horrifying becomes much more horrifying than in reality as well. What a storyteller! The characters' failures, love stories, everyday matters, insights and shortcomings shimmer in his hands: the very ordinary life becomes a little bit more beautiful. A different voice is just enough * Expressen * The Home gives me goosebumps along my arms all the way up my shoulders, and shows that there is no need for armies of aliens, zombies or blood-sucking foxes. Psychology, guilt and painful secrets * Tara * Mats Strandberg is marvellous when he lets us feel the approaching catastrophe: we feel an ice-cold chill. With a never-failing humanism and a deep understanding of the genre, The Home is the true proof that Sweden has a new horror king * City/SWE * With The Home Mats Strandberg nails his position as one of the best Swedish horror writers * Skanska Dagbladet * * John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Let the Right One In * Good characters, clever story, plenty of scares. ![]() This elegant Swedish slow-burner is i mbued with horror interwoven with regret, guilt, memory and shame. ![]()
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