Split the Bill (Splitta nota)

Åsa Lantz

 

A son is sitting in jail accused of murdering his classmate but refusing to talk. A mother is searching her soul at the same time she goes hunting for clues to the mysterious event. Does she actually bear the guilt instead of her son? So begins Åsa Lantz’ thriller novel Split the Bill, set in a small village in Värmland, where everyone works for the Big Factory, a factory which makes deadly weapons.

 

Split the Bill is a powerful, emotion-laden novel of the ties, strained to the upmost, between mother and son, but also the outsider status of a creative human being as well as the society which forms us.

 

237 Pages

 

Rights sold

Sweden: Albert Bonniers Förlag, Månpocket

 

Reviews

“Just a page or two in and I’m totally caught up in Åsa Lantz’ Split the Bill.”

GT

 

“…I’m struck by how skillfully Lantz creates her tale.”

Dagens Nyheter

 

“…a refreshing, sharp and shocking novel, with a mix of irony, humor, gravity and exposed nerves makes this work bit by bit hard to resist.”

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