{"id":1073,"date":"2008-11-10T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/11\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:00:36","slug":"the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/10\/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

from National Public Radio<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Making Of A Posthumous Best-Seller<\/h1>\n

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by Martha Woodroof<\/span><\/p>\n

NPR.org<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0November 11, 2008 \u00b7<\/span>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>is an unlikely best-seller \u2014 it’s the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“It’s a multigeneration family saga. It’s a story of corporate corruption, of religious fanaticism. It’s about the darker elements in contemporary society,” says [Knopf Editor-in-Chief “Sonny”]\u00a0Mehta. “And then, at its basic level, it’s a kind of a classic locked-room mystery.”<\/p>\n

Larsson’s day job was as a crusading anti-fascist journalist who was passionate in his support of anyone being victimized. He co-founded a magazine in Sweden called\u00a0Expo.<\/em>\u00a0Daniel Poohl, a colleague at the magazine, calls Larsson “idealistic.”<\/p>\n

“[I] never met anyone like him,” says Poohl. “I read the book after he died … it was \u2026 a way to hear Stieg’s voice again.”<\/p>\n

The American edition of the novel sports enthusiastic blurbs from such best-selling authors as Michael Connelly, Lee Child and Harlan Coben. And there’s also one from Michael Ondaatje, author of\u00a0The English Patient.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Michael Ondaatje was in the office some months ago and saw it lying around, took a copy with him to a holiday in Hawaii or something, and then phoned me and said, ‘Who is this guy? What an absolutely wonderful read!’ ” Mehta says.<\/p>\n

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