This epic, scary and moving book is about Domarö, a fictive island in the Roslagen archipelago in Sweden, the people living there and their relation to a very cruel and very living sea. Lindqvist paints a very broad picture here, starting with legends and pacts made hundreds of years ago and leading up to the present generation of inhabitants, all with the secret truth about the sea as a major factor in their daily lives. This Lindqvist's fourth book is much more like Handling the Undead in scope and flavour rather than Let the right one in, but in my opinion it's much stronger. Where Handling the Undead didn't quite work once the action moved to a mythical level, Människohamn presents a sea more resembling a Lovecraftian god than anything - and pulls it off.

It's been a while since I read a page-turner like this. From the opening chapters where a child disappears from where it shouldn't even be possible, this book had me hooked. But not only is it scary, moving and thrilling, following the main character Anders in his numb refusal to accept his daughter's death and idealisation of her memory also has something pretty profound to say about parenthood. This book really got to me as a father as well as a reader. I highly recommend it. ( )

Ei ihan yhtä vahva kuin Ystävät hämärän jälkeen, mutta varsin hieno tarina silti. Alku on hidas ja vie parisataa sivua, ennen kuin kirjassa alkaa kunnolla tapahtua, kannattaa kestää. ( )

http://www.piruett.se/2008/06/10/vem-... ( )