On October 21st, what is perhaps the most eagerly awaited book of the year will hit Swedish bookstores. Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, sold over one million copies in the U.S. in its first day on the shelves. In Sweden, more than 275,000 copies have already been pre-ordered. But it hasn’t been entirely smooth sailing up to this point.
You don't have to speak with many people in the book world to understand that nothing has been the same since The Da Vinci Code. The novel, published in 2003 (2004 in Sweden), has sold 80 million copies worldwide — 1.1 million in Sweden alone. Over 700,000 of these were in hardback, making it by far Sweden's bestselling hardback book of all time. Now, five years later, the sequel has finally arrived.
