Broken

Resumen del libro

A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters.

So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking in to her house to make her tell it. She creates Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, who works in an art gallery. He lives a quiet, dutiful life, carefully designed to avoid surprise.

One winter's day all this begins to change, when an emaciated young heroin addict walks into the gallery. A kind man, Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. She returns some weeks later to his place of work, and then one day appears on his doorstep demanding to be let in.

Interspersed with the chapters of Alvar's story are his encounters with its author - the frantic attempts of a fictional man trying to control his own destiny. "Broken" is a gripping novel about the boundary between fact and fiction from the renowned author of the Inspector Sejer mysteries.

Biografía del autor

Karin Fossum, nacida en Sandefjord, Noruega, en 1954, es una de las autoras más consolidadas de la nueva narrativa policíaca escandinava. Su estilo se centra en la introspección y en las motivaciones psicológicas de los personajes que protagonizan sus historias criminales. Tras su debut con El ojo de Eva, Karin Fossum ha merecido lo más granado de los premios literarios escandinavos: No mires atrás recibió los premios Riverton y La Llave de Cristal a la mejor novela policíaca; ¿Quién teme al lobo? fue galardonada con el premio de los libreros noruegos, y Una mujer en tu camino fue calificada como la mejor novela negra noruega de todos los tiempos por el prestigioso diario Dagbladet .