Stieg Larsson is making Stockholm look cool. Thanks to his books The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the others in his millennium trilogy which are set in Stockholm, this city is becoming known. And with the popularity of the movies on top of it, viewers are seeing Stockholm and more specifically, the island of Södermalm where much of the action in the books takes place.
Just before we left Cincinnati, we went to the theater to see the movie version of the third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. I loved hearing Swedish in my hometown and it was fun to see places on Söder that we know on the big screen.
Then last night as we watched BBC World News, I saw Söder again. There was a special segment on Stieg Larsson’s Stockholm that focused on the millennium tour that I took about a year and a half ago. (See Millennium walk.) It featured the island, as well as several locations on it including character Mikael Blomqvist’s home on Bellmansgatan and the restaurant Kvarnen, both of which are in walking distance of my home.
With this kind of publicity, maybe people will actually come to realize that Stockholm is not in Switzerland!
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I hope you are right on the Swiss thing and that we don’t have polar bears on the streets 🙂
There have been a bunch of stories around today his partner is planning to finish the fourth book. I’m not sure about that.
James, There’s also been a rumor for a long time that she actually wrote all the books. I’ve also heard that the fourth book was actually finished and just needed an edit…who knows?
We watched the third film in Spokane and were pleased to see how much of the Swedish we could understand. Barely looked at the sub titles. Particularly liked the part where they drove the police cars across the park at Maria Torget. Right where I sit and admire the fountain. Up to Umeā tomorrow where it was -15 F today–for three weeks in the class room.
Tom: We were proud of ourselves too! And it was great to see Stockholm on the big screen too!
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