"'Mikael Blomkvist was born on 18 January, 1960, which makes him forty-three years old.'" (p. 44)
This chapter, CHAPTER 2, like CHAPTER 1, is dated:
"Friday, 20.xii" (p. 29)
- so it is set in 2003.
CHAPTER 10 is dated:
"Thursday, 9.i - Friday, 31,i" (p. 165)
It follows that Blomkvist's forty-fourth birthday falls during this chapter although it is not mentioned.
EPILOGUE: FINAL AUDIT is dated:
"27.xi - 30.xii" (p. 513)
Thus, the novel ends on the second last day of 2004.
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire (London, 2010).
CHAPTER 1 is dated:
"Thursday, 16.xii - Friday, 17.xii" (p. 7)
This is December, 2005. It follows that Blomkvist is now forty-five and, in just over a month, will be forty-six.
CHAPTER 2 is dated:
"Friday 17.xii" (p. 30)
In this chapter, Blomkvist says:
"'I'm going to be forty-five any day now.'" (p. 35)
Inconsistency.
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