Swing
Bengt Ohlsson
Bengt Ohlsson’s SWING is a comical, tender and gripping story about our demands for excitement and fantasy in our sex life in a time when porn is called erotica and you can buy dildos at the nearest pharmacy. Like no other, Bengt Ohlsson is able to c…
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 Little Old Lady Behaving Badly
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
This is the first book in the beloved LEAGUE OF PENSIONERS series.¿79-year-old Märtha Andersson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intention of spending the rest of her days in an armchair and is determined to fund her wa…
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…
