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He disfigures himself with acid so that the police will not be able to trace Eli through him. His father is an alcoholic living in the countryside. She is revealed to be a vampire who was turned as a child and is stuck forever in a child's body and mind. Eli drinks his blood but a guard interrupts them and Eli fails to kill him. Håkan's attempt to get blood fails, and he is caught. She does not realize her "infection" until she tries to prolong her life by drinking her own blood, and finds that exposure to the sun causes boils on her skin.
Håkan serves Eli by procuring blood from the living. It has been adapted as two independent films, a play, and a television series. He keeps a scrapbook filled with articles about murders and often fantasizes about killing his tormentors. The book was a bestseller [ 1 ] in the author's home country of Sweden; it was translated into several languages, including English. Oskar has gained interests, which include crime and forensics.
Oskar sets fire to the desks. Håkan offers his blood. Their relationship becomes closer, and they reveal more of themselves, including fragments of Eli's life. Among the details revealed is that Eli is a boy named Elias who was castrated when he was turned into a vampire over years ago. Eli tries to drink her blood, but Lacke fights her off. Eli says that Håkan may only touch her. Virginia realizes her transformation and kills herself in bed by exposing herself to daylight.
Lacke is thwarted by Oskar and Eli. Oskar fights back and injures his tormentor. Oskar befriends Eli. Eli lives with an man named Håkan. Complete order of John Ajvide Lindqvist books in Publication Order and Chronological Order. He is reanimated as a vampire driven by his desire for Eli. Håkan pursues Eli, where he tries to rape her. Virginia survives, but starts turning into a vampire.
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They corner Oskar at night at the pool and try to drown him. Håkan offers to go out one last time if he can spend a night with Eli after he gets the blood. Håkan throws himself out the window to the ground below. She dresses in clothing and is perceived by outsiders as a girl moreover persist to call her as a gender. Eli fights him off and escapes. The story centers on the relationship between a year-old boy, Oskar, and a centuries-old vampire child, Eli.
It takes place in Blackeberg , a working-class suburb of Stockholm , in the early s. Browse & Discover Thousands of Book Titles, for Less. Jimmy hunts down Oskar for retaliation. He lives with his mother, who is loving and with whom he seems to have a connection. He struggles with his conscience and chooses victims whom he can trap, but who are not too young. Lacke suspects a child is responsible for the murder of his friend.
Håkan is destroyed by Tommy who gets locked in the basement with him. The book grapples with the darker side of humanity, including such issues as existential anxiety , social isolation , fatherlessness , divorce , alcoholism , school bullying , pedophilia , genital mutilation , self-mutilation , and murder. American network TNT ordered a pilot episode for a television series based on the novel, to premiere in Oskar is a boy who is on the verge of his 13th birthday.
Eli pays him for doing this.
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Oskar and Eli develop a relationship, and she helps him fight back against his tormentors. He even goes as far as taking out his aggression on a tree in the woods near his apartment. Lacke witnesses Eli attack his girlfriend.