Hope Springs Eternal
Karin Wahlberg
It’s the year 1953 and polio is a raging epidemic. Young Ella-Kristin is called upon to leave her nursing education and instead come to help as an intern at the local hospital. She worries about her soon to be fiancé Carl, who is constantly put to th…
Office Ninja
Lars Berge
OFFICE NINJA is a dry and darkly humorous satire on working life – The Office meets Being John Malkovich. Come along for the ride!On one of the myriad identical floors of a large office complex about 20 minutes outside Stockholm resides Helm Tech, a…
The Emigrants
Vilhelm Moberg
THE EMIGRANTS is the first part of Vilhelm Moberg’s large ‘Emigrant’ epic about Kristina, Karl Oskar, Robert, Arvid and everyone else in the parish of Ljuder. After many years of famine and other hardships in a poverty-stricken Sweden, they decide to…
GLITTERING
Göran Tunström
Pétur is born on the slope of an Icelandic volcano. His father, Halldór, takes care of him and fills his childhood with tales which Pétur carries with him in his travels around the world as an adult. It’s about longing, saying farewell to life, but a…
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…
