false 2116936 1 The surprising sequel to 'Gentlemen', the instant classic that defined Klas Östergren as a major voice in Scandinavian literature. 'Gangsters' begins at exactly the same moment Östergren left his fictional universe a quarter-century ago: the young narrator and the beautiful femme fatale Maud, ex-lover of Henry Morgan and the evil industrialist Wilhelm Sterner, sitting very close together on a bed in Henry Morgan s abandoned apartment. Very quickly, however, we learn that nothing from the earlier novel is what we believed it to be. The young narrator didn t tell the truth in 'Gentlemen'. He was too scared. Sinister agents, including the evil industrialist Sterner and a gray and anonymous civil servant known only as the Envoy, forced him to leave out the true story - Maud's safety depended on it. Now, twenty-five years later, Maud is dead, the Envoy is retired, and the writer is free to tell what really happened. But if you have lived half your life in denial of the truth, can you suddenly just summon it at will? 'Gangsters' is a beautiful and tragic love story, and a profound meditation on the nature of fiction, illusion, and storytelling - a meditation made by a mature master revisiting his youthful material. 2122367 28 4 2007 Gangsters total:7|5:2|4:2|3:1|2:2|1:0| 7 25 9 1 4 0 false false Thu Jan 31 01:44:27 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 01:46:35 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Nov 05 09:33:51 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 09:33:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 05:36:23 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 05:36:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 29 07:50:16 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 23:56:09 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 01:38:17 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 01:38:17 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Sep 22 01:07:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 01:07:05 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Aug 02 09:42:48 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 09:42:48 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 12:43:38 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 12:43:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Dec 28 13:48:57 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 13:49:01 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2116936