{"id":286406,"date":"2011-08-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/08\/01\/latest-review-there-are-things-i-want-you-to-know-about-stieg-and-me-by-eva-gabrielsson\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:56","slug":"latest-review-there-are-things-i-want-you-to-know-about-stieg-and-me-by-eva-gabrielsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/08\/01\/latest-review-there-are-things-i-want-you-to-know-about-stieg-and-me-by-eva-gabrielsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "'There Are Things I Want You to Know' About Stieg and Me" by Eva Gabrielsson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is a piece by Julianna Romanazzi on the punctuation-confused “There Are Things I Want You to Know” About Stieg and Me<\/em> by Eva Gabrielsson, translated by Linda Coverdale and published by Seven Stories. <\/p>\n

Julianna’s been posting here for the past few months during her summer internship. She’s currently studying at Hobart & William Smith, and likes to tango.<\/p>\n

This book isn’t exactly the sort of book we usually review here, but the whole Stieg Larsson phenomenon sure is something. And Eva Gabrielsson’s situation is pretty interesting. (See this<\/a> Publishing Perspectives<\/em> piece for more info about the boo.)<\/p>\n

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The book itself is meant to be a “biography“\u2014take that as you will\u2014of the late author\u2019s long time partner Eva Gabrielsson, whom he met at age nineteen (she was eighteen), and stayed with for over 30 years. Eva chronicles the ups and downs of their life together, the different political movements and counter movements the couple was involved in, the roots and creation of the Millennium Trilogy<\/em>, and their reasons for avoiding marriage. The last part of the book is also devoted to Eva\u2019s loss of control over Stieg\u2019s legacy and the downward spiral of his estate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Gabrielsson writes “This book . . . I wish I hadn\u2019t had to write it. It talks about Stieg, and our life together, but also about my life without him.” Reviews call the book “poignant,” “romantic,” and “touching”; and it is. There are moments of great accomplishment and personal danger mixed with the little everyday couples\u2019 rituals that keep a relationship alive. But there is, of course, another tension. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The book admits early on, in both a foreword by Marie-Francoise Colombani and in the first chapter, that Eva is “today fighting to obtain control over Larsson\u2019s literary estate.” An estate that is according to some sources worth $15 million dollars or more (over 97 million Swedish kronos), the sixth largest estate attributed to a dead celebrity after Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, JRR<\/span> Tolkien, Charles Schulz, and John Lennon. But that is not to say that the book does not have its moments of emotion and poignancy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the entire review.<\/p>\n

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