People wtih an adjacency to fame often try to glom onto a piece of it, but Gabrielsson is up to something more ambitious and personal" -New York Times Book Review "In this candid, moving work, Gabrielsson chronicles her life''s journey with her longtime companion, Stieg Larsson, the Swedish creator of the Millennium trilogy who died suddenly at age 50, in 2004, before the first volume of his phenomenally successful work (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in English) was even published. The book is a short, highly emotional tour through a widow''s grief and dispossession, and the details of the couple''s life together are jarringly juxtaposed with blood feuds and score-settling. "Fans of books looking for an intimate peek into the life of a man who summoned a dark scary version of Sweden will not be disappointed. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson's readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters-graciously answering Stieg Larsson's readers' most pressing questions-and at the same time telling us the things we didn't know we wanted to know-about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women. In "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty.
Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority.
Here is the real inside story-not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship.
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