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…
The Book
Niklas Rådström
A solitary figure sits bent over a book, and as page after page fills with words and sentences, an entire world and a struggling humanity begins to take shape. The writer sends out three angels to bring order and justice among all those who themselve…
The Bomber
Samuel Bjørk
On a Saturday morning, a woman boards the Oslo metro wearing a suicide vest. The explosion shakes the Norwegian capital. The city is placed under lockdown, the royal family is evacuated to safety, and all emergency units are put on high alert. Journa…
Stig.
Niklas Rådström
“One evening, a few hours after Stig Claesson had passed away, someone from TT called and told me. I was, of course, aware of how ill he had been and that death was near, and yet we are always just as unprepared when it finally arrives. The reporter…
The Moon’s Confidant
Niklas Rådström
The one holding the pen in Niklas Rådström’s The Moon’s Confidant is Lorenzo Da Ponte—librettist for Mozart’s three most famous operas—born Jewish, ordained a Catholic priest, married and father of six, a poet, gambler and adventurer, a friend of Gia…
A Handful of Rain
Niklas Rådström
We are prepared to do almost anything to keep life in those we love. We throw ourselves to the ground and try, with our bare hands, to stem the flow of blood from battered bodies. Again and again, we insist that what we have been told cannot be true,…
