Gabrielsson explains feeling "dispossessed" after Larsson's death because, as a common law partner in Sweden with no children, she had no inheritance rights. In her book, Gabrielsson also describes her struggle with Erland and Joakim Larsson, Stieg's estranged father and brother, over control of Larsson's work. Larsson's crusade against Sweden's right wing fascist movements put him in constant danger and Gabrielsson writes that neo-Nazis left death threats on the couple's answering machine and sent bullets in the mail, and suggests that part of the reason the two of them never married was that it would have made Larsson an easier target for his opponents on the right.
The memoir details how the couple met and their struggles together at Expo, the anti-fascist publication Larsson founded in 1995. Her partner, she says, was a feminist, a hopeless businessman, a journalist who could not hold down a staff job, and a passionate fighter and investigator for social causes and against the Far Right. The letter is included in the memoir along with the details of Larsson's trip to Africa. The title of the book comes from a love letter that Larsson wrote to Gabrielsson when he thought he might die during a trip to Africa in 1977. It chronicles their life together and puts Larsson's life into context.
The memoir originated with a series of diary entries that Gabrielsson wrote in order to cope with the loss of her partner. Gabrielsson and Larsson met when they were 18 at an anti- Vietnam War meeting and they remained together for 32 years until his unexpected death in 2004. Larsson is best known for his posthumously published Millennium series. "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me is a memoir written by Eva Gabrielsson, the life partner of Stieg Larsson, about life with the author and all of the complications surrounding his legacy.
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