The shapeshifters

Resource Information

The work The shapeshifters represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The shapeshifters

Statement of responsibility

Stefan Spjut ; translated from the Swedish by Susan Beard

Title variation

Shape-shifters

Creator

• Spjut, Stefan, 1973-

Contributor

• Beard, Susan, 1949-

Author

• Spjut, Stefan, 1973-

Translator

• Beard, Susan, 1949-

Subject

• Giants -- Fiction
• Missing children -- Fiction
• Shapeshifting -- Fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Sweden -- Fiction
• Trolls -- Fiction
• Fantasy fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Fantasy fiction

Language

• eng
• swe
• eng

Summary

'A fantastic novel in every sense of the word . . . not only because Spjut has accomplished the masterstroke of writing convincingly about the existence of trolls and other mythical creatures in the Nordic forests, but also because all this unfolds in a language that captures the everyday reality we know so well, with such precision and exquisite style that the words seem to sparkle on the page.' --Karl Ove KnausgArd Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims that he was carried away by a giant. He is never found. Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there's a lead, a single photograph taken by Susso Myren. She has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as 'stallo' who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden

Member of

• Stallo

Cataloging source

WWBK

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Swedish

Literary form

fiction