Poems That's Someone Treasures

Läckberg, Camilla, The German child, Actes Sud, 2011

Erika has many difficulties to concentrate on writing his novel while Patrik has taken parental leave to care for Maja. The discovery of a medal, a jacket stained with dried blood in a trunk in the attic diaries and Erika will decide to investigate the past of her mother that she is unfamiliar. Then going back and forth between the war years (1943-1945) and today. There is talk now of pro-Nazi and neo-Nazi now. A story! Short episodes that move the reader from one period to another, from one character to another, from one fact to another while creating the novel's pace and make the reader focuses on different characters recurrent Läckberg novels. The investigation itself is secondary and is the ratio between these characters and societal issues that make the story very interesting. This is the fifth novel by the author, most elaborate and most successful. Already enchanted by the previous, I was dazzled by it.