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MiCHAel MortiMer jungfrustenen<br />
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The Virgin Stone<br />
by Michael Mortimer<br />
Autumn 2013, 438 pages<br />
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus<br />
Material available autumn 2013!<br />
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ISBN: 978-91-1-303352-5<br />
The Virgin Stone<br />
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In 1769, Carl von Linné’s disciple Daniel Solander<br />
makes a remarkable discovery during his<br />
voyage around the world with Captain Cook.<br />
In New Zealand, Solander finds a stone with<br />
extraordinary properties that challenges<br />
his masters view of nature, and it is therefore<br />
hidden away. The stone breaks into four<br />
pieces, and during the course of history the<br />
pieces end up in the hands of, among others,<br />
Niels Bohr, Greta Garbo and Joseph Stalin.<br />
More than 200 years later, student Ida Nordlund<br />
receives a strange phone call from her<br />
grandmother Alma in Moscow. Alma asks Ida<br />
to look after a box, which she will receive at<br />
the Nobel Award ceremony. But something<br />
goes wrong and the courier bringing the box<br />
dies under spectacular circumstances. Soon<br />
Ida is sought not only by the police, but also<br />
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by a secret network of scientists who are willing<br />
to do anything to obtain the enigmatic<br />
box.<br />
Ida makes an abrupt escape from Stockholm<br />
and seeks help from her foster dad Lasse.<br />
Together they are chased in a thriller-like<br />
tempo through northern Sweden, through<br />
Finland, and finally they end up in Russia,<br />
with Grandma Alma, who is carrying a dark<br />
secret.<br />
What kind of stone did Solander find? What<br />
did Linné hide inside those freshwater pearl<br />
mussels in the north of Finland? And why<br />
was Ida deserted by her mother Eva, who disappeared<br />
so many years ago?<br />
Prepare for an adventure out of the ordinary.<br />
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linda.altrovberg@norstedts.se<br />
catherine.mork@norstedts.se<br />
asa.bergman@norstedts.se
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