She hopes that it will establish her as a serious filmmaker and perhaps answer a question that has haunted her since childhood. In the book’s present, a fledgling documentary film director named Alice Lindstedt is determined to make the village and its secrets the subject of her next project. "The book does a good job of being scary without being terrifying, but it gets the two jittery states just close enough that it really doesn’t make much difference." They discovered a wailing infant and the body of a woman who had been tied to a pole in the town square and stoned to death. ![]() I say “almost” because of the haunting and bizarre tableau that greeted the two police officers sent to investigate. Silvertjärn is a tiny village - little more than a hamlet - in rural Sweden whose population almost entirely vanished without warning in August 1959. THE LOST VILLAGE initially reminded me of THE RUINS by Scott Smith, though Sten’s novel eventually treads sure-footedly in another direction. If I were looking for a one-word description of the book, I would reflexively, though still quite accurately, use the term “creepy.” ![]() While THE LOST VILLAGE is Camilla Sten’s sophomore effort, it is the first of her novels to be published in the United States (thanks in part to a stellar translation by Alexandra Fleming) and is quite different from her debut in tone, plot and genre.
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