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Conceptually breathtaking and emotionally powerful, *Mona* is a story about the good - and the evil - that people can be compelled to do when they risk losing their loved ones.
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Dan Sehlberg was born in 1969. He began studying classical piano at the age of eight, and later became part of the rock band Nova, which recorded an album and played at several Swedish music festivals and clubs in the mid-1980s. Dan has also composed and recorded music for film and multimedia projects.
Dan holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics, and currently works as a partner and financial officer in a Swedish real-estate firm. As an entrepreneur, Dan has launched companies ranging from Sweden’s first travel-booking website to social-media ventures.
Dan lives with his wife and two daughters in Stockholm, and retreats to the tranquillity of Sörmland, on the southeastern coast of Sweden, to work on his books.
Mona is his first novel, and will be followed by its sequel, Sinon.
Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator specialising in literature. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Riassunto
When nothing else makes sense, the impossible is all that’s left to believe.
Eric Söderqvist, a professor of computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has invented Mind Surf, a thought-control system that allows people with disabilities to browse the web.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Samir Mustaf, a former MIT professor whose daughter Mona was killed by an Israeli cluster bomb five years earlier, has just finished creating the most sophisticated and devastating computer virus the world has ever seen, aimed at Israel’s financial system.
When Eric’s wife, Hanna, falls into a coma — struck by an aggressive and previously unknown virus, after having tested her husband’s invention — the doctors are at a loss. Although everyone around him thinks he’s gone mad, Eric becomes convinced that his wife has been infected by a powerful computer virus known as Mona, and that the only way he can save her life is by tracking down its creator.
What follows is a compelling and high-octane pursuit. Conceptually breathtaking and emotionally powerful, Mona is a story about the good — and the evil — that people can be compelled to do when they risk losing their loved ones.
