Angelina Elander

Epic Suffering Angelina Elander

Horror, gore, sex and drama are the main ingredients in this pseudo autobiographic psychological thriller by Angelina Elander. Just as the title indicates it's epic suffering and from the first page to the last. It's about how one woman goes out on a drug induced binge after a painful separation and finds love in all the wrong places. First she falls in love with the singer of a Brazilian band and at their concert she meets the guy that would ruin her life forever. It turns out he's a schizophrenic massmurderer: six months after their rendezvous he goes out on a terrible killing spree in a kindergarten. Then she starts sending him love letters and comes in contact with an infamous top gangster in the same prison. Friends and family want to declare her insane and have her locked up in a mental institution, but were they ever friends and what are they trying to hide by their attempts to silence her? It's written in a humorous manner with added elements of science fiction and contains a lot of cocky dialogue, with Swedish accent. The book is richly illustrated by Belgian artist Michaël Janssens. His experimental style fits the content of the literature perfectly.