303:('Maimana Wall') SAK förlag/Premiss förlag (2004). In this novel, the theory about Gummeson having survived the death of Winant and of having been sold as the daughter-in-law to the clan chief Kala Khan is fictionalized. In the novel, Gummeson is raped by the son of Kala Khan after the murder of Winant and, after having become pregnant, is forced to marry her attacker; she is then offered a chance to return to Sweden on the condition that she leave her child behind, but unable to leave her child, she agrees to remain in Afghanistan, and gets accustomed to living in
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fiancé Peter Winant in 1956. The extensive investigations were hampered by official corruption and codes of loyalty to clan chiefs. None of the later sightings were confirmed, and the case of their disappearance has never been solved.
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