The Wolf Skin Trilogy, Part 3
Kerstin Ekman
With THE WOLF SKIN TRILOGY #3 Kerstin Ekman concludes her broad trilogy about the village of Blackwater, which began in 1999 with God’s Mercy and was followed by the second book in 2002. Kerstin Ekman, who turns 70 in August 2003, is one of the most…
The Wolf Skin Trilogy #2
Kerstin Ekman
THE WOLF SKIN TRILOGY #2 is a tightly woven and broad continuation on GOD’S MERCY. Kerstin Ekman once again lets a rich novel world emerge, as in the previous series The Women and the City, where the lives and events are intertwined, the inner and th…
The Choreographer
Håkan Nesser
A man and a woman. He sees her one day when winter is over; somewhat hesitantly she is choosing a dress in a shop. He speaks to her. She answers. Thus they become – guided by an inexorable choreography – a couple.But the story is played out both then…
Engagement
Gun-Britt Sundström
With sales of over 60,000 copies since the relaunch, Engagement is a masterful modern classic that is ever-relevant and ever-fascinating.What is it to be a couple? What responsibilities can one presume, and what can you ask from each other? Time? Sex…
Essays of Nature
Harry Martinson
Blackwater
Kerstin Ekman
On Midsummer’s Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder–a…
Flowering Nettles
Harry Martinson
FLOWERING NETTLES is commonly regarded as Harry Martinson’s masterpiece of prose and is, still today, an exceptionally upsetting reading experience. The story of the parish boy Martin Tomasson and his fate as a child onon the farms where he is accomm…
God’s Mercy
Kerstin Ekman
When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is poorly prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated…
