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Box 21 recenserad i New York Times

Roslund & Hellströms Box 21 har nu nått den amerikanska marknaden. Och de amerikanska recensenterna. Här är utdrag från recensioner i New York Times, Washington Post och Philadelphia Inquirer:
Marilyn Stasio, New York Times:
”Scene by violent scene, this thriller by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom (in a blunt, uncredited translation from the Swedish) never loses sight of Lydia Grajauskas, who was exposed to violence as a child in Lithuania before being duped into prostitution and ferried over to Sweden to cater to the tastes of rough men with disgusting sexual habits /…/ (Lydia) makes a believably tragic model for all the real women exploited by human traffickers.”

Patrick Anderson, Washington Post:Box21_amerikansk.jpg”The painful question the reader asks, as the novel begins, is whether Lydia and Alena can possibly escape their hellish fate. In fact, they do escape, whereupon the story takes a number of surprising twists. Alena wants only to return home to Lithuania, but Lydia is obsessed with taking revenge on the Swedish man she holds most responsible for their ordeal.”
Recensionen i Wahington Post fortsätter med en jämförelse mellan Box 21 och Stieg Larssons ”Män som hatar kvinnor”. Recensenten kallar båda ”fine novels” men påpekar att det också finns skillnader dem emellan:
””Box 21″ is a grittier novel and contains ugly scenes of forced sex. ”Tattoo” managed a happy ending; this one ends mostly in despair. But if the nasty realities of the sex trade don’t scare you off, ”Box 21″ is a harsh but vivid reminder of just how brutal men can be. ”
Även The Philadelphia Enquirer har recenserat Box 21. Här är ett utdrag av John Timpanes anmälan:
”Heroes and heroines are here, to be sure, and in the end the book is a celebration of love. But Box 21 teaches a hard truth, forces us to admire people we cannot like, to see when we’d rather turn away. It holds us still and makes us look./…/ The setting of this novel – which on its own terms is superb – is Stockholm, the dark Stockholm gaining rapid fame in the United States thanks to the recent wave of ”Nordic noir,” top-rate mysteries, detective stories and crime novels from Scandinavia./…/Like its Nordic noir fellows, Box 21 is profound, with much to show, much to say, much to set in play, on the human condition. It’s a novel with a heart, even if it’s a hardened heart.”