Samurai Summer, Ake Edwardson
Samurai Summer, Ake Edwardson
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Samurai Summer

Author: Åke Edwardson, Per Carlsson

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/25/2013


Synopsis

Looked at from the outside, the annual summer camp in the countryside seems idyllic. But for Kenny, a boy with a Samurai soul, it is no more than a prison camp, run by a sadistic woman who is sometimes helped by her salacious son, Christian. To escape the adults, Kenny and his “samurai” friends sneak out to the forest to build a secret castle. It’s off-limits to the girls, but a female camper named Kerstin begs Kenny to show her the castle. But suddenly she disappears, and Kenny realizes something terrible must have happened to her. Something that points to the old woman who runs the camp but even more so to her strange, creepy son.

About Åke Edwardson

Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of novels, short stories, plays, detective fiction, and is a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Award for best crime novel. Set in Sweden in the early 1960s, Samurai Summer is Edwardson’s first novel for teens.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MacWithBooksonMountains on March 12, 2024

Ake Edwardson evokes childhood memories of roaming in the woods, building treehouses and other twiggy-branchy contraptions, going to town for ice cream and making up tall stories of brave warriors and adventure - at least it does so in me. Clearly, not all grownups will take to Samurai Summer the wa......more

Goodreads review by Arja-täti on July 28, 2011

Luin tuttuun tyyliin väärässä järjestyksessä eli toisen osan Lohikäärmekuu ja sitten tämän ensimmäisen. Toinen oli toistoa, kyllä eka on aina eka. Ensimmäisessä ahdistus, pelko ja tuo kaikki oli todella läsnä. Toisessa kaikki lässähti. Mutta edelleen kyselen, kenelle tämä on kirjoitettu. Retroaika,......more