Fiction

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 ...

"The sweat ran down their backs. The long journey from an icy and chilly Stockholm was over; they had arrived in Yekepa. The powerful sun beat down on patches of unprotected skin and the dust settled quickly again on the ground. Like a herd of fright ...

With a huge portion of wit and high-spirited storytelling that hardly has its equal in Swedish literature, The Long Ships is one of our few genuinely living classics to capture the imagination of generations of readers.The adventures of Orm (the Red ...

This volume contains three texts by Per Olov Enquist on August Strindberg. Tribadernas natt, Enquist’s debut play was written in 1975. Strindberg, ett liv is the basis for the SVT television series that was broadcasted for the first time in 1985, Enq ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...