Troubled Water
There rests Nilas, hidden under the moss with frosted flowers on his cheeks. Lying next to treacherous moorland and rapid forest streams, the same spot where Hebbe once died. Everyone believes that Nilas has drowned, that he has been swallowed by the Vindel River. Several decades will pass before the spring flood reveals what really happened.
This is the story about a handful of people whose destinies are inexorably tied together by Nilas’ disappearance in the mid-1960s, about before and after. It is the story of Assar’s forbidden desire for Margareta, about Håkan who longs for a father but who gains a little brother, about Håkan’s girlfriend Petra who, many years later, decides to dig out the truth nestling beneath layers of age-old secrets and distressing memories.
Troubled Water is a novel about loneliness, longing, village gossip and how far the conscience can reach.
Maria Broberg (born 1977) grew up in Piteå but has been based in the remote northern Swedish village of Nedre Saxnäs for the past decade – a place that inspired her to write Troubled Water. She has a background in arts journalism and today she works with public relations and as a freelance writer.
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Finland: Atena, Germany: Nagel & Kimche, Netherlands: WereldbibliotheekThere rests Nilas, hidden under the moss with frosted flowers on his cheeks. Lying next to treacherous moorland and rapid forest streams, the same spot where Hebbe once died. Everyone believes that Nilas has drowned, that he has been swallowed by the Vindel River. Several decades will pass before the spring flood reveals what really happened.
This is the story about a handful of people whose destinies are inexorably tied together by Nilas’ disappearance in the mid-1960s, about before and after. It is the story of Assar’s forbidden desire for Margareta, about Håkan who longs for a father but who gains a little brother, about Håkan’s girlfriend Petra who, many years later, decides to dig out the truth nestling beneath layers of age-old secrets and distressing memories.
Troubled Water is a novel about loneliness, longing, village gossip and how far the conscience can reach.
