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PENGUIN BOOKS THE SAVAGE ALTAR Åsa Larsson was born in Kiruna, Sweden, in 1966. The Savage Altar won Sweden’s Best First Crime Novel Award. Åsa Larsson’s second novel, The Blood Spilt, will be published by Viking in 2008. THE SAVAGE ALTAR Åsa Larsson Translated by Marlaine Delargy PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com First published in Sweden by Albert Bonniers as Solstorm 2003 First published in the United States of America by Bantam Dell as Sun Storm 2006 First published in Great Britain by Viking as The Savage Altar 2007 Published in Penguin Books 2008 1 Copyright © Åsa Larsson, 2003 Translation copyright © by The Bantam Dell Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. 2003 All rights reserved This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The moral right of the author has been asserted The moral right of the author has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser ISBN: 978-0-14-191716-0 It grows like a tree of rage behind my brow with flashing red leaves, blue leaves, white! A tree still quivering in the wind And I will crush your house, and nothing will be unfamiliar to me, not even what is human Like a tree from the inside forces its way out and crushes the skull
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