The house is opposite. A. Haridi

The house opposite has been empty for many, many years. Joel knows exactly: from his porch to the door of this frightening building - seventeen meters. You will run through the road, pull the gilded handle in the form of a lion's paw - and find yourself inside. If you dare. The house has seemed to be cursed since the 13-year-old Jonathan Andersson disappeared from there.

Joel went around this place all his life, but when he himself was thirteen, he decided to go inside. The day when he, his friend Calle and his friend Molly broke the window of an abandoned house and crept into the basement, changed the hero’s life once and for all. He understood it right away. And I also understood that I was obliged to tell the story of the house opposite is a chance to win in the national contest of school works.

characters of Alex Haridi - ordinary teenagers: they hang around around the streets, quarrel with parents and sisters, fall in love, look for adventures out of the blue. And only the adventure that they eventually find is knocked out of their everyday life. Fantastic, terrible, inspiring, anyone - but not ordinary.

“Scandinavian Stephen King” or “Continue of Harper Lee traditions”? Neither one nor the other - with all the justice of associations! Alex Haridi is a famous Swedish film director, his favorite genres are detective, noir, thriller, psychological drama about growing up. In his debut novel “The House opposite”, he connects them all - and creates a deep text from which it is impossible to tear himself away, how many years you are.

for senior school age.