Echoes From the Dead (50 page)

Many friends have helped me in a variety of ways while I

have been writing Echoes from the Dead: thanks to Kajsa Asklof, Monica Bengtsson, Victoria Hammar, and Peter Nilsson in the

writers’ group Litter; Jacob BeckFriis, Niclas Ekstrom, Rikard Hedlund, Caroline Karlsson, Mats Larsson, Carlos Olguin,

Catarina Oscarsson, Michael Sevholt, Kalle Ulvstig, and Anders Weidemann; as well as to my relatives Lasse and Eva Bjork in Kalmar, Hans and Birgitta Gerlofsson in Farjestaden, and Gunilla and PerOlof Rylander in Borgholm.

I would also like to thank all my excellent, hardworking editors, above all Rickard Berghorn of the journal Minotaur and Kent

Bjomsson of the publishing firm Schakt, who have taken good

care of many of my short stories, as well as Lotta Aquilonius at Wahlstrom & Widstrand, who took equally good care of Echoes

from the Dead.

My mother, Margot Theorin, deserves a considerable eulogy

for all the old and new books and newspaper articles about life on Oland with which she has so generously supplied me.

And finally, thank you and a big hug to Helena and Klara for putting up with my daydreaming.

Johan Theorin

About the Author

JOHAN THEORIN was born in 1963 in Gothenburg, Sweden,

and has spent every summer of his life on northern Oland. He is a journalist and scriptwriter. His second novel, Night Blizzard, will be published by Delacorte Press.