The Fly and The Eternity
Håkan Nesser
Maertens is fifty-four years old. He has begun to lose control of his life and gets silent phone calls from an unknown person. The woman he has had a long relationship with has left him. There is a strange change in the skin on his chest. The writing…
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…
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…
