LONG JOHN SILVER – LONG JOHN SILVER

BY LARSSON, BJÖRN

What ever happened to Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous and yet attractively subversive pirate whose exploits made him the anti-hero of robert Louis Stevenson’s treasure island?

He lived out his twilight years on Madagascar, rich, one-legged and attended by a handful of devoted slaves whose freedom he had purchased in the West Indies by inciting them to rebellion. That he had a price on his head and the navy out looking to bring him to justice bothered him less than the thought of posthumous obscurity. So he set down these memoirs to give his side of the story.

First published by Norstedts, 1995
397 pages

Denmark, Centrum
Estonia, Olion
France, Grasset + Le Livre Poche
Germany, Berlin Verlag + Goldmann
Greece, Psichogios
Italy, Iperborea
The Netherlands, De Bezige Bij
Norway, Stenersen Forlag
Portugal, Dogan Kitapcilik
Russia, MIK
Spain, Ediciones B
Sweden, Norstedts
UK, Harville Press
US, Harville Press

Larssons’ brilliantly-coloured tapestry is worth its weight in gunpowder.
FIGARO

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