Pet Shop Girls Author:Anja Snellman Twelve years ago, on a December Sunday, Jasmin Martin disappeared. Despite the best efforts of the police, her trail quickly went cold. As time passed, her mother wrote a memoir, created a blog and formed support groups, appeared on the TV talk-show circuit, and struggled to continue her private medical practice. Jasmin Martin became just anothe... more »r statistic, another missing teenager.
How could the child of a comfortable, middle-class family be swept into a world mothers and fathers fear deepest in their hearts, a global network of pornographers and drug smugglers, pedophiles and pimps? Where is she now and with whom? And how does a mother keep looking--where, and for how long? Jasmin's tale is told from multiple perspectives in this beautifully crafted and suspenseful novel.
Anja Snellman, one of Finland's most popular contemporary authors, is the recipient of the prestigious Pro Finlandia Medal in 2007, and has published more than twenty novels, and has been translated into over 20 languages. Pet Shop Girls is her first novel to appear in English.« less