After a week of sensational praise, where reviewers hailed Agneta Pleijel’s Snails and Snow as “intense and compelling” and “subdued yet powerful, deeply intimate yet gently contemplative”, and Pleijel herself as “so superior that she doesn’t even need to embellish the reasons for writing with artistic pretentions”, we were even more delighted to learn that the book went straight to #1 on both Dagens Nyheter’s Critics’ List as well as Svenska Dagbladet’s Book List. What an achievement!