Shame

and Shame . She is the great-niece of Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi Longstocking stories), and lives in Stockholm.

    STEVEN T. MURRAY is a publisher and translator who has been translating from Nordic languages for over thirty years. He is the prize-winning translator of Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander books.

Also by Karin Alvtegen
    Missing
Betrayal

Copyright
    First published in Great Britain in 2006
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
    Originally published in Sweden as Skam in 2005 by
Natur och Kultur, Stockholm
Published by arrangement with the Salomonssen agency
    This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books
    Copyright © Karin Alvtegen, 2005
English translation copyright © Steven T. Murray, 2006
    The right of Karin Alvtegen and Steven T. Murray
to be identified as respectively the author and
translator of the work has been asserted in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
    British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library
    ISBN 978 1 84767 691 7
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