You Are the Roots That Sleep at my Feet and Keep the Earth in Place
”We are going to be something, you and me, Sebastian. We have to protect what is ours.”
Sebastian encounters the mysterious Andreas for the first time on Walpurgis Night, in a local park in Stockholm. Their relationship is passionate and dramatic. But deep inside Sebastian carries another person, someone nobody else sees but him. Her name is Ellie, and one day she shall rise from his ashes.
Eli Levén’s debut novel is a work of auto-fiction revolving round the icon of Saint Sebastian, pierced by arrows and tethered to a tree.
The novel was later awarded the Katapult Prize for best debut.
Eli Levén was born in 1984. You Are the Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place is his first novel, praised by critics and awarded with the Katapult Award for best debut novel of 2010. A documentary film about Levén premiered during 2012 and a film based upon You Are the Roots... titled Something…
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”We are going to be something, you and me, Sebastian. We have to protect what is ours.”
Sebastian encounters the mysterious Andreas for the first time on Walpurgis Night, in a local park in Stockholm. Their relationship is passionate and dramatic. But deep inside Sebastian carries another person, someone nobody else sees but him. Her name is Ellie, and one day she shall rise from his ashes.
Eli Levén’s debut novel is a work of auto-fiction revolving round the icon of Saint Sebastian, pierced by arrows and tethered to a tree.
The novel was later awarded the Katapult Prize for best debut.
