"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson

Gabrielsson speaks with rare candor and dignity, inspired only by the truth as she knows it. The book is narrated as a series of short vignettes, with titles ranging from 'Speaking of Coffee' and 'Stieg's Journalistic Credo' to 'Goodbyes' and 'The Fourth Volume'.

Above all, this is a love story, and we come to understand, while listening to 'There Are Things I Want You to Know' about Stieg Larsson and Me, that if there was another secret besides Larsson's own imagination and convictions, it was his absolute love for his companion and her nurturing of their privacy and shared passions. Here, she tells the story of their 30-year romance of Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden's neo-Nazis of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive of his difficult relationships with his immediate family and of the joy and the relief he discovered writing the Millennium trilogy. The keys to the 'Stieg Larsson phenomenon' all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. The issue is not money, she says, but her ability to guard her partner's artistic integrity.There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story better than he can, and that is his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. Gabrielsson continues to wield her most powerful, if dubiously ethical, weapon: She refuses to help finish the next books in the series, or to answer where Larsson's missing computer - with the unfinished manuscripts - is, until she's given control of his literary estate.

Family and partner fought ugly battles in the European media. She was a widow emotionally, but legally, she was a concubine - without any inheritance rights. Unfortunately, the slim volume reads more like a court defense and less, as one might hope, as a remembrance of a writer whom millions of readers have come to love but know precious little about.īereaved and depressed after Larsson's death, Gabrielsson found herself in an epic, public war with Larsson's father and brother over the writer's increasingly valuable estate. In ''There Are Things I Want You to Know' About Stieg Larsson and Me,' Gabrielsson tells her story.

&quot;There Are Things I Want You to Know&quot; about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson

"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson