Den mörka sanningen

Den mörka sanningen
Author Margit Sandemo
Cover artist Allied Artists
Language Swedish, Norwegian
Subject The forgotten memory from childhood
Genre Romance, Crime and Historical novel
Publisher Boknöje AB
Publication date
2001
Media type Pocket book
Pages 156
ISBN 91-7713-020-0
OCLC 186475780

Den mörka sanningen - En berättelse om kärlek och omsorg, svek och mod (Swedish: The Dark Truth - A Story About Love and Care, Fraud and Gallantry) is a love- and crime novel by Norwegian-Swedish author Margit Sandemo from 2001. Forerunner of this novel is a serial in a magazine published short novel called Sanningen (Swedish: The Truth). The clue and characters of Sanningen are same as in the Den mörka sanningen, it's just the extended version from that story. Den mørke sannheten is the novel's Norwegian name. In Norway Den mörka sanningen has published as part of Spesial bøker (Special Books) -series, which is assembled of novels by many writers. Norwegian translation is by Unni Wenche Tandberg.

Plot

Scene of the novel is Norway in year 1911. Nineteen-year-old shopkeepersdaughter Cornelia Weding has lived with a terrifying and inexplicable memory since the age of five. She has tried to deny it, but it comes back recurrently into her mind in the shape of feelings, words and nightmares. In the memory fragments she wambers as a child alone in the hard of night-time and dark forest and searching for something or the enormous and frightening figures in the black capes stays round her baby bed and threaten to kill her if she would remember.

As her missfortune her loved childhood friend will get married to her beautiful and evil cousin. When she takes a trip to their weddings her stepmother's childhood home, she realizes that she has returned to the place where the dark mystery happened fourteen years ago...

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