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The Shapeshifters : A Novel by Stefan Spjut; Susan Beard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Shapeshifters : A Novel about?

This tale of missing children and mythic monsters is “a fantastic novel in every sense of the word” (Karl Ove Knausgård ). Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims he was carried away by a giant. He is never found. Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there’s a lead, a single photograph taken by Susso Myrén. She’s devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that the fabled beasts are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won’t hesitate to close its deadly ranks. Mixing folklore and history, suspense and the supernatural, The Shapeshifters is an extraordinary journey into a frozen land where myth bleeds into reality. “Spjut has accomplished the masterstroke of writing convincingly about the existence of trolls and other mythical creatures in the Nordic forests . . . all this unfolds in a language that captures the everyday reality we know so well,

Who reads The Shapeshifters : A Novel?

Author

Stefan Spjut; Susan Beard

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780544084087

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Crime