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Handling the Undead

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Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Quercus Publishing)
After receiving the shocking news that his wife, Eva, has been killed in a car accident, David goes to identify her body.

To his horror, as he is whispering his goodbyes to her body, Eva wakes up, along with all the other corpses within the city of Stockholm. Though it is not the Eva that he once knew, David cannot force himself to say goodbye to the "zombie" that has returned in her place.

Follow David and other characters as they try to come to grips with the idea that there may be some form of life after death.

Written in gruesome detail, Handling the Undead tackles the subject of zombies from a different perspective; how society tries to take a proactive and ethical stance to this new addition to humanity.

Read how some try to adjust their paradigms of faith and life according to what they experience, but in the end, there are always those individuals who are scared of what they don't understand, and seek to destroy it.

Lindqvist succeeds in creating a terrifying depiction of a world with zombies. And one is left with the burning question "what would I do if my loved one came back to life?"

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