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9 Spring 2018 Ina Rosvall (b. 1988) Harelot Publi
sher Albert Bonniers förlag www.albertbonniersforlag.se Rights Albert Bonniers förlag helena.ljungstrom@ albertbonniers.se Ina Rosvall lives in Malmö and works as a psychologist. Harelot is her debut novel. Harelot Must we humans be captive inside our own consciousness? A scientist longs for other perspectives on the world: what does the fish see? The hare? The mole? The novel’s diary form allows us to follow her growing feelings of estrangement from her family and her everyday life. In the laboratory she and her colleagues are working to create an organic brain, into which they feed the nerve impulses of different species of animal. One day, she hooks herself up to it. The psychologist Ina Roswell has written a thought-provoking novel about one person’s desire to overcome her own boundaries and become something larger than herself. The future she depicts is simultaneously dizzyingly promising and unfathomably melancholy. What are people really searching for in animals – themselves, or a fundamentally different otherness? Photo: Nille Leander