Välkommen till den här världen:

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 triangle among several thousand others. Greta works in a hip wok house, but dreams of becoming a DJ. Within her self she carries a fascination for the experience of her own body: her slimness, her long hair, her nail biting. She lives in a communal household with two selfcentred,
pretentious boys using her as a muse. All the more desperate, she needs a change in her life.

Then one day she meets Simon who is the best triangle drawer in Copenhagen. He is not like anyone she has ever met before. With Simon follows Claus. It soon becomes clear that this is not a golden triangle, but one that inevitably must break. One of them must go – the question is who?

Amanda Svensson’s longed-for novel, following her debut Hey Dolly, is a story of three people who all feel increasingly lost in their social context. Three people all in need to be understood.

Pressvoices for Welcome to this world:

“A heady and delectable book which left me feeling genuinely sad… The ending has a sublime self-evidence to it. The storytelling is skillful, leading to a moment of blissful triumph where everything springs to life and is crushed at the same time - all in one bittersweet chord.”
Expressen 

“‘Fiercly skillful’ and ‘brilliantly clever’, yes, but I’m not sure what I can say about Amanda Svensson’s world without coming across like a salesperson making a pitch for the latest miracle medicine. Here’s the point - if all authors were endowed with her literary energy and whimsy, then every book would be worth reading./…/
The story itself has excellent structure, but what you really take away from the book is the language - one moment low, the next moment high, over-the-top then precise, and at no point does the writing feel anything  other than just right.”
Svenska Dagbladet

”‘Welcome to this World’ has its own particular rhythm which I enjoyed following.”
Borås Tidning

“The style is exuberant, energetic and poetic. /…/ Amanda means ‘someone worthy of love’. I love this Svensson.”
Hudiksvalls Tidning

“Amanda Svensson’s language is both beautiful and ugly. Beautiful in the occasionally lyrical descriptions of love and loneliness, hopelessness and despair - ugly in the colloquialisms and in Greta’s faux Danish. The resulting contrast is fantastic.”
Trelleborgs Allehanda

“I’m in love with a book. /…/ ‘Welcome to this World’ is bursting with notable and
 quotable turns of phrase/…/ Amanda Svensson’s language is both playful
and endlessly energetic, skillfully contained within the bounding limits of pure genius.

“Her novel is an amazing journey within an fragile teenage bubble. The initial unevenness and uncertainty culminates in a melodramatic explosion.”
Norrköpings Tidningar

“As I write this I am torn between two alternatives. Either I can immediately shower press-review praise (as it was once known) on her novel, or else I can try to explain why just this particular novel represents a stunning pyrotechnic display in a Swedish publishing year that has otherwise mostly been characterised by damp-squib novels.”
Dagens Nyheter

“Amanda Svensson’s language is reminiscent of nothing short of contemporary poetry.
It is constantly flexible and sensitive, with an unpredictability often verging on the lyrical. /…/an absolute pleasure to read someone who has so totally understood and exploited the full potential of language.”

“Masterly, to say the least.”

“Amanda Svensson is sure-footed in her new novel.”
Smålandsposten

“An experimental and playful story, characterized by both suffering and humour.”
Kristianstadsbladet

Press voices for Hey Dolly:
“I have not for a long time come across such an unpredictable first-person narrator as Dolly, and such a flexible storyteller as Amanda Svensson. This very associative writing quickly pulls in the reader – you just have to fasten your seat belt.” Svenska Dagbladet

“it is a pleasure to read Amanda Svensson /…/ she has written a comedy, a sharp contemporary comedy with carefully manicured black borders.” Dagens Nyheter

“My only complaint with Svensson’s debut novel is that it ends too soon. I want more of Dolly. When I have finally stopped feeling like a middle-aged woman, I feel a pressing need: more Dolly, more anger, clear-sightedness and sharp irony. One can only wait for the next book. I am convinced that Amanda Svensson will
write more.” Sydsvenska Dagbladet

“Hey Dolly is compressed and earnest. Perhaps it does say something about young women of today, but I don’t want Dolly to be solely a symbol, not for the time she lives in nor her gender, I just want her to be fantastic. Dolly, if you read this: send me a mail and lets meet for coffee!” Aftonbladet