The girl with the dragon tattoo

5 stars of 5 stars

By Sandra Alfaro, October 28^th, 2013

This review is from: The girl with the dragon tattoo (Stieg Larsson)

Genre: Novel

 

“Eighteen percent of the women in Sweden have at one time been threatened by a man”

Henrik Vanger is an old man who has been received every year in his birthday a mystical flower which no one else knows who sends, and where it is from.  Mr. Vanger and his rich Swedish family, who have common business, lives in a little town named Hedertad.

Mr. Vanger  granddauther ,Harriet Vanger,  has been lost for several years, and since that, Mr. Vanger has been thinking she is not  died  and contact Mikael Blomkvist who is an important  journalist in a renamed newspaper,  to searching she, and to writing  memories about Mr, Vanger’s life.

Mikael Blomkvist one of the principal characters is a conscious journalist who recently lost a trial related to embezzlement corruption investigation against to an influent  rich businessman and Blomkavist in a way to obtain revenge decides to investigate the Harriet case. 

The journalist and his assistant Lisbeth Slander, a mysterious hacker, antisocial and intelligent girl, starts  to investigate  what happened with Harriet. In the investigation Mikael and Lisbeth meeting the Vanger Family, and their relation with Harriet, besides some family problems.

Stieg Larsson a Swedish journalist, who died of a heart attack in 2004,  wrote this best seller novel which explain the importance of personal and natural emotions,  particularly  topics about corruption, sexual abuse and missing people in  the presently, related  with feelings and  thinking’s  with some appropriate level of fail.  This book it’s the first part of the three books saga.  The novel was narrated in third person, and when you start to read the sequence and the chapter’s organization (dates), you can feel like a person who is in the story and glimpse the places in the background.

I was looking for some detective novel and I chose this book last august from my pending book list, one friend recommended this book related with social criticism, because I remember some months ago we were talking about “quality of life” and I say:  “I read the statistics and Swedish is one of 5 countries with the most quality life” and she told me “Have you ever listened about The Girl with the dragon tattoo?” and when I start to read ,the female violence, against, disappointment, fail, appear in that pages. Most of the time “the first world” it is viewed as a model to follow but in this case the book shows many contradictions about that.

When I was reading this book I remember the case of many missing women in the entire world, and Mexico is not the exception, the case in Ciudad Juarez, represented an example about this disappearances, in addition the social media have similarities with Mexico like some of that are coopted from rich people with corruption; moreover, exists congruent journalists like Blomkvist who is searching the truth.

 The character that I found the most interesting was Lisbeth, here is a girl who shows her sensitivity to woman behaviors and that is her motor to involve she in the investigation about Harriet, moreover, she has her own story, which is narrated in a lot of lines in the novel, and provide us an extremely denote about currently social female problems and nowadays the common speech says:  “the importance of the women has been increasing”,  but the global statistics show the opposite, referring specific to view woman  like a sex symbol.

 With 644 pages, this book is heavy, yet hard to put down. I consider, the book reflected the currently reality not only in Swedish which has a high level of development in healthy, education and other services; has an appropriate criticism and reflexing social problems. I recommended this book to people who like the mystery and the actual discussion topics.