To everyone at Södra Esplanaden in Lund;
To Tobias Almborg for friendship and for reading the first few chapters before I knew where I was;
Johan Jarnvik for friendship and laughter; Daniel Zander because you are my brother; Liisa, Milla, and Lukas. Without you, nothing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOAKIM ZANDER was born in Stockholm, has lived in Syria and Israel, and graduated from high school in the United States. He earned a PhD in law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has worked as a lawyer for the European Union in Brussels and Helsinki. Rights to his debut novel The Swimmer, as well as for The Believer, were sold in thirty-one countries. Zander lives in southern Sweden with his wife and two children.
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ALSO BY JOAKIM ZANDER
The Swimmer
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THE BELIEVER. Copyright © 2015 by Joakim Zander. Translation copyright © 2017 by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published as Orten in Sweden in 2015 by Wahlström & Widstrand.
FIRST U.S. EDITION PUBLISHED 2017
ISBN 978-0-06233725-2
EPub Edition January 2017 ISBN 978-0-06233729-0
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