John Ajvide Lindqvist has taken the horror world by storm. His first novel, Let the Right One In, has been made into critically acclaimed films in both Sweden and in the U.S (as Let Me In). His second novel, Handling the Undead, is beloved by horror lovers everywhere. Now, with Harbor, a stunning and chilling masterpiece, Lindqvist firmly cements his place as the heir apparent to Stephen King. One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While they are exploring the lighthouse, Maja disappears – either into thin air or under thin ice -- leaving not even a footprint in the snow.
Two years later, Anders, a broken man, moves back to his family’s abandoned home on the island. He soon realizes that Maja's disappearance is only one of many strange occurrences, and that his fellow islanders, including his own grandmother, know a lot more than they’re telling. As he digs deeper, Anders begins to unearth a dark and deadly secret at the heart of this small, seemingly placid town.
As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of high-tension suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath. ●只要知道它的祕密，你就再也逃不掉了。 ●2011年國際IMPAC都柏林文學獎入圍作品 ●「爹地，那是什麼？」瑪雅指向遠處某個地方。一個燦爛的冬日裡，放眼望去，視線所及的冰層都覆蓋著白雪，安德斯看不出女兒所指的方向有什麼不尋常之處。瑪雅跑出去看個仔細，五分鐘後，噩夢降臨。燈塔外只有一望無際的冰層，瑪雅根本不可能就這麼憑空消失，卻還是發生了。她到底看到什麼？ ●兩年後，安德斯離了婚，成了酒鬼，回到了島上。然而，瀕臨絕望的他卻接收到一個訊息，使他重新燃起一線希望：瑪雅還在這個世界上，只是他卻無法接觸到她。不久，安德斯開始看到一些失蹤多年的島民，他們的樣子和當時一模一樣，完全沒有變老。是酒精的影響，還是他犯了失心瘋？原本十分美麗的童年玩伴，為何不斷的整型，破壞自己的外貌，將自己弄得又老又醜？不僅如此，他很快發現瑪雅的失蹤並非單一事件，島上的居民，包括他自己的祖母在內，都保守著隱匿不揚的祕密。安德斯越挖越深，一步步揭露了看似寧靜的小村莊裡黑暗而致命的內幕。
Two years later, Anders, a broken man, moves back to his family’s abandoned home on the island. He soon realizes that Maja's disappearance is only one of many strange occurrences, and that his fellow islanders, including his own grandmother, know a lot more than they’re telling. As he digs deeper, Anders begins to unearth a dark and deadly secret at the heart of this small, seemingly placid town.
As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of high-tension suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath. ●只要知道它的祕密，你就再也逃不掉了。 ●2011年國際IMPAC都柏林文學獎入圍作品 ●「爹地，那是什麼？」瑪雅指向遠處某個地方。一個燦爛的冬日裡，放眼望去，視線所及的冰層都覆蓋著白雪，安德斯看不出女兒所指的方向有什麼不尋常之處。瑪雅跑出去看個仔細，五分鐘後，噩夢降臨。燈塔外只有一望無際的冰層，瑪雅根本不可能就這麼憑空消失，卻還是發生了。她到底看到什麼？ ●兩年後，安德斯離了婚，成了酒鬼，回到了島上。然而，瀕臨絕望的他卻接收到一個訊息，使他重新燃起一線希望：瑪雅還在這個世界上，只是他卻無法接觸到她。不久，安德斯開始看到一些失蹤多年的島民，他們的樣子和當時一模一樣，完全沒有變老。是酒精的影響，還是他犯了失心瘋？原本十分美麗的童年玩伴，為何不斷的整型，破壞自己的外貌，將自己弄得又老又醜？不僅如此，他很快發現瑪雅的失蹤並非單一事件，島上的居民，包括他自己的祖母在內，都保守著隱匿不揚的祕密。安德斯越挖越深，一步步揭露了看似寧靜的小村莊裡黑暗而致命的內幕。