Handling the Undead
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
When the power supply goes haywire all over Stockholm and people everywhere are struck by blinding headaches, things seem strange enough. But soon after, in morgues and cemeteries throughout the city, the dead start to wake. And things really get weird-because the newly undead are not as they were in life.
With wry humour and compassion, Lindqvist illuminates what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them: Mahler, alight with hope that his little grandson has been returned; David and his son Marcus, devastated by the loss of their adored Eva, and aghast at what she has become; Elvy, convinced this mass resurrection heralds the End of Days (and desperately hoping her late husband isn't back to stay); the government, which can't work out what to do with its newly restored citizens.
Equal parts family drama, social satire, piercing tragedy and disquisition on mortality, Handling the Undead is a zombie novel utterly unlike any other.
'Horror fans will rejoice …A macabre and strangely affecting tale, at once compassionate, witty and deliciously gruesome.' Age
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Swedish horror author Lindqvist moves from vampires (Let the Right One In) to zombies in this gripping, subtle tale. Stockholm is overtaken by the undead after a period of strange weather, and the uprising has surprising consequences for several people, including David, a comedian whose dead wife comes back to life; self-harming psychic teenagers Flora and Elvy; and journalist Gustav Mahler, whose only hope of saving his daughter and himself from grief lies in exhuming his young grandson and hoping the boy will be reanimated. Lindqvist's character-driven narrative is at times slow and confusing, but pop culture references keep the story relevant and interesting. This intelligent look into the psychological side of the undead will entice longtime zombie fans eager for a subversive examination of some of the horror genre's most recognizable monsters.
