Book description
Startling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications - a
thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power.
Two violent deaths in the Swedish wilderness; the hurried flight of
a sinister stranger: terrible events long buried in Annie Raft's
memory - until she sees her daughter in the arms of the man she
believes responsible for the killings...
Kerstin Ekman is one of Sweden's most prominent novelists. She was
born in 1933 in Risinge, a small village in the middle of Sweden. She
has written many novels which have been widely published in other
Scandinavian languages, German, Finnish, Dutch and French, and have
won numerous prizes and awards. She became a member of the Swedish
Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, but resigned in 1989 when the
Academy did not make a statement that she could approve of about the
Rushdie case.
Blackwater has been awarded the Swedish Crime Academy's Award
for the best crime novel, the August Prize, and the Nordic Council's
Literary Prize.
