The Forest of Hours
Kerstin Ekman
Ekman’s central character is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. The novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he m…
The Cigarette Afterwards
Horace Engdahl
Literary historian and critic, linguist and member of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl continues to study the world around him, investigating our daily struggles, literature and its critique, history and our dreams. In these short textual fragment…
Grand Finale
Kerstin Ekman
From legendary author and former Swedish Academy member Kerstin Ekman comes an instant classic centering on the professional and personal relationship between two women, and the lies they tell to keep up appearances at any cost.In GRAND FINALE the ac…
Snow Angel
Anna-Karin Palm
Snow Angel is a story of realism and magic, set in Stockholm in the mid 1980’s, more precisely in the winter of 1985-86, just before the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. It is a time of darkness and secrets, and Hedvig, a young orphan woma…
The Sky Over London
Håkan Nesser
A far-ranging novel about swinging London at the end of the sixties – cleverly set as the division of an inheritance at a dinner party, also in London, but in the early years of the 21st century. The love story, which is central to the novel, goes ba…
The Angel House
Kerstin Ekman
At the windy corner of Highway Street and Industrial Road, opposite the Co-operative Stores, stood a lime tree and a large old wooden building. There was a newspaper kiosk too, to be strictly accurate. The lime tree and the building used to talk to o…
City of Light
Kerstin Ekman
Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the Swedish town in which she grep up in order to sell the old house she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house,…
The Lonely Ones
Håkan Nesser
A trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever…It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala. Different circumstances push the three young couples together and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. A summer…
