Let the Right One In
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims.Which is why, against the odds, they became friends.And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself.Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city’s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he’s frightened.Eli i….Read More
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