"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson

His heart attack at the age of fifty is much more likely to be the natural result of these factors than the workings of mysterious enemies). She even performs an ancient Norse ritual to inflict curses on these people, whoever they are (but, as she admits, Larsson did not take good care of himself and that his mother and grandfather both died young, from heart problems, just like Larsson did.

Gabrielsson's understandably bitter, She blames mysterious enemies ('they') who overworked her late lover to the point of early death. Therefore, the millions Larsson has earned posthumously due to the success of his crime novels have gone to his father and brother, not to his companion. The author died suddenly, without a will, and without ever marrying his live-in companion of over thirty years, Eva Gabrielsson.

I was interested in this book because of the controversy regarding Larsson's estate. It's a quick read, and presents a moving portrait of a woman in mourning.I'm not a big fan of Stieg Larsson or the Milennium trilogy (I've read only The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and don't have much interest in reading the other two). I liked this book more than I thought I would. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson’s readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters-graciously answering Stieg Larsson’s readers’ most pressing questions-and at the same time telling us the things we didn’t know we wanted to know-about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women. In “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.Įva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority.

Here is the real inside story-not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship.

&quot;There Are Things I Want You to Know&quot; about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson

"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson