Through their jobs at a women’s magazine, Tito and Nathalie have become both friends and workmates – without an undue sense of loyalty – as they both work hard to realise their own goals and dreams. Nathalie is also sexually attracted to Tito, who ha ...
Through their jobs at a women’s magazine, Tito and Nathalie have become both friends and workmates – without an undue sense of loyalty – as they both work hard to realise their own goals and dreams. Nathalie is also sexually attracted to Tito, who has just met Erik, who actually could be the perfect partner she’s been dreaming about.
At a glace it might appear to be a triangle drama, but it is both a lot more complicated and much simpler than that.
De skamlösa is an entertaining and subtle attack on all those lipglossy dreams that chicklit writers, women’s magazines and publishers make money off.
Sisela Lindblom’s return after a ten year hiatus is as on the mark literarily as she is contemporary, a sharp gaze from a writer whose pen cuts right into the world we are living in at this moment. She has previously written two novels: Lisa för själen (1995) and Jägarinna (1997). She has also been active within the theatre for many years.
Praise for Sisela Lindblom:
“Satire often uses caricatures, the typical being blown up to the extreme. It rarely works well in the form of a novel. Lindblom has been more clever than that. She has only notched up reality a few, hardly noticeable, steps. Even though she has herself said in some context or other that she doesn’t like her own fictional characters, she does nevertheless describe them with a sort of tenderness, a distanced empathy which doesn’t so much convey contempt for superficiality but, rather, a despair in the face of wasted power of women.” Nils Schwartz, Expressen
“One of the most unpleasant books I have read in a long time. And one of the most interesting... if she reminds me of any author it is Michel Houelback... it is the same pleasure-filled emptiness that they describe.” Kulturnyheterna, Swedish TV
“With her first book in ten years... dramatist and director Sisela Lindblom punctures the shiny surface in a superb manner. This is devilishly refined, effective and nasty.” Gotlands Tidningar
“... an artfully infernal and stylistically accomplished story.../---/ Very talented.” Aftonbladet
” Simply excellent.” Östersunds Posten
“... unaffected /---/ ... Credible...” Östgöta Correspondenten