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Innan floden tar oss

Sisters by the River

Helena Thorfinn

On Saturdays throughout the spring he had sat in countless Södermalm cafés along with other fathers of young children, sipped latte and eaten sourdough bread rolls with brie, crunched on the red pepper that came with the brie and explained: I've ...

Ingenbarnsland

No Child's Land

Eija Hetekivi Olsson

The parks are littered with trash; the streets are covered with cigarette butts. The litterbins outside the school are on fire, and so is the rage inside Miira.  Asphalt court yards, concrete buildings and faces hard as stone. The place is calle ...

Världens ensammaste plats

The loneliest place in the world

Staffan Malmberg

And there they are; four persons showing up for group therapy, waiting for a therapist who never shows up. Perhaps they might as well start talking to each other, to break the ice and not feel as alone?Four persons are attending group therapy: Ove, w ...

Diabetikern

The Diabetic

Aleksander Motturi

What happens when somebody is diagnozed with diabetes? The protagonist in Diabetikern/The Diabetic – Motturi’s debut as a novelist – is, strange though it may seem, not at all despondent. Rather, he feels newly in love, and in some weird way as if he ...

Välkommen till den här världen:

Welcome to this World:

Amanda Svensson

Amanda Svensson is back after her much-praised debut Hey Dolly, this time with a triangle drama set in Malmoe and Copenhagen. Välkommen till den här världen: / Welcome to this World: takes place in a limited area where three people move as a triangl ...

Anna och Mats bor inte här längre

Anna and Mats Don’t Live Here Anymore

Helena von Zweigbergk

In Anna and Mats’ flat, the boxes are all packed and ready to be moved to the new apartments. The divorce papers have just been signed. During a period of a couple of months, from the darkest days of mid winter to the blooming days of June, we get to ...

Gå sönder, gå hel

Breaking/Whole

Sofia Nordin

A woman is on the run. With a baby tightly held against her chest, she hiding from forces that follow her. Somewhere else, a woman is creating her perfectlynormal life, with a normal house and husband. The contrasts in their lives and their relations ...

Outsider

Outsider

Torbjörn Flygt

Torbjörn Flygt’s impressive breakthrough novel Underdog appeared in 2001. Heralded by universal acclaim in book reviews, Underdog won the August Prize and went on to sell more than 400 000 copies. Now, ten years later, it’s time to meet Johan Kraft a ...

Augustenbad en sommar

Augustenbad, one summer

Anneli Jordahl

June early 1890s, poet Andreas Öman arrives in the small provincial spa town of Augustenbad. It soon becomes evident that he has not journeyed here out of his own free will, rather he is obeying orders from his wealthy wife and her family. Reluctant ...

Delhis vackraste händer

Delhi’s most beautiful hands

Mikael Bergstrand

In Delhi’s most beautiful hands/Delhis vackraste händer, a middle-aged Swedish man meets the bustling and colourful life in India and encounters unexpected passion where he least expected to find it. Mikael Bergstrand describes this meeting with warm ...

The Agency

The Agency

Sisela Lindblom

A heat wave is striking Europe. Semolina Pritchard, the head of The Agency in London, flies to Paris to chase a casting commission. Her usually reliable secretary Lindsay Lawrence embarks upon a forbidden romance with one of the agency’s clients – an ...

Siri

Siri

Lena Einhorn

“Mama, I am not made for a quiet home with the smell of roses! I need battles to be happy!”Those are the words Baroness Siri von Essen expresses, one year after meeting the author August Strindberg, when she tells her horrified mother about her sudde ...

Mördaren är död

The Murderer is Dead

Stewe Claeson

Stewe Claeson’s new novel is a story full of twists and turns and surprises. All families have secrets, but the Chinese box belonging to late Johannes Halland reveals a secret so dark that it completely subverts all that his sons ever took for grante ...

Att föda ett barn

Giving birth

Kristina Sandberg

How did Maj get into this, with a growing belly and a husband she hardly knows? All she wanted to do was work for a while and then perhaps move on again, maybe even to Stockholm. Behind she would leave her working-class background, her mother’s illne ...

De dömdas ö

The Island of the Condemned

Stig Dagerman

Using nightmarish imagery, this is an allegory centered on seven shipwrecked people, doomed to die, each seeking a form of salvation.The central theme is fear. The language is inspired by Faulkner, and the symbolism by Kafka. Dagerman wrote the nov ...

Ormen

The Snake

Stig Dagerman

The Snake is an anti-militaristic story with fear as its main theme, channeling the war-time zeitgeist. Set in neutral Sweden during raging World War II, Dagerman examines the effects of powerlessness and fear among a group of young people. He writ ...