ISLAND (Ö)

The utmost beauty and the utmost terror exist in the ties to those closest to us.  

Mirjam is in the throes of a painful separation when her sister Nia suddenly gets in in touch. Nia is making plans for her fortieth birthday, and invites Mirjam to a celebration on the island where they spent their childhood summers.

Mirjam hasn’t heard from her sister in a year, and the newfound connection fills her with hope and trepidation. She decides to return to the island that once were their paradise. Now it has become a place of danger for both of them.

A place where death is looming.

300 pages

Rights

Denmark: Modtryk
Finland: WSOY
Sweden: Albert Bonniers

BLURBS

“Island is an extraordinary thriller where the expected never happens and the fictional seems real. A chamber play about life and death where betrayal, regret, love and hate reach a boiling point.”
Niklas Natt och Dag (author of 1793, 1794 and 1795)

“Island  is a chilling story with many layers and depths. A novel brimming with thrilling and unexpected twists and turns, while describing domestic violence incredibly well. Unputdownable.”
Moa Herngren (author of The Divorce, The Inheritance)

“Island  by Sara B. Elfgren seizes you with an unrelenting intensity that is both harrowing and unforgettable.  Sara proves once more that she is a master of her craft, weaving a thriller that is as intense as it is profound.”
Levan Akin (Director of And then We Danced, Passage, Interview with the Vampire)

REVIEWS

“Sara B. Elfgren’s new novel shines with eloquent rage. […] a suspense novel with several surprising twists and turns […] It is a startling description of toxic relationships, of their tell tale signs and mechanisms […]  the searing rage of an eloquent writer with an acute errand.”
Dagens Nyheter / SWE

“a depiction of the constant proximity of alternative realities, and how easy it is to get lost in the darkness of the labyrinth […] With Island Elfgren updates an older gothic tradition for our time.”
Aftonbladet / SWE

“A new way to describe one of the ever relevant and oldest themes: destructive love.”
GoodReads / SWE

“Island is a psychological thriller that skillfully connects to the romantic Gothic tradition. The narrative style and language are evocative, with an external setting of a rugged cliff landscape on the island, crowned by a solitary pine tree, harmonizing with and enhancing the inner, conflicting emotional life of the first-person narrator.”
Rating: 4
BTJ / SWE

“Sara B. Elfgren has a keen understanding of human flaws at all ages — Island is a spine-chilling page-turner full of relationships!”
Femina / SWE

“Candy for the ears”
Icakuriren / SWE