Hour of the Wolf
Håkan Nesser
A drunk driver runs down a young boy. He runs away from the scene of the accident but his life is turned upside down. Increasingly desperate evasive action drives him mad. Superintendent Reinhart and the recently created secondhand bookshop owner Van…
The Road
Harry Martinson
At the center of WAY OUT is the hobo Bolle and his travels through a Sweden that is soon about to fundamentally change through industrialization. Bolle has two ambitions: one, to escape from his Father’s tobacco business and become a musician, the ot…
The Inspector and Silence
Håkan Nesser
An anonymous woman reports that girls are disappearing from a summer camp in The Pure Life cult outside the little town of Sorbinowo. Is she telling the truth? Who is she? And what is it that is hidden behind the sect leader’s fanaticism? Superintend…
Aniara
Harry Martinson
ANIARA is a book-length, epic, science fiction poem. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential str…
The Way Out
Harry Martinson
In THE WAY OUT, which came the year after FLOWERING NETTLES, Harry Martinson continued his autobiographical story of the parish boy Martin Tomasson and his twofold longing – the longing away from his overly harsh living conditions and the longing for…
