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New Swedish Books 10 Andrea Lundgren (b. 1986) No
rdic Fauna Publisher Natur & Kultur www.nok.se Rights Natur & Kultur nina.eidem@nok.se Works I tunga vintrars mage novel 2010 Glupahungern novel 2014 “ The pain and the trauma dissolve the boundaries between possible and impossible worlds.” Nordic Fauna Is that the unidentifiable bird of madness calling down by the river at four in the morning, or is the cry coming from the narrator’s own mouth? Andrea Lundgren’s realityexpanding stories explore the existential abyss that sometimes opens in the midst of a family, and what happens to those who fall in. The pain and the trauma dissolve the boundaries between possible and impossible worlds. Animal, angel, human: each takes on characteristics of the other. With psychological acuity, Lundgren sketches portraits of yowling mother cats, dog-like girlfriends and a child whose seven loyal imaginary animals risk their lives when they go home with her to Dad. The vulnerable creatures in her bestiary will stay with the reader long after they’ve finished reading. Photo: Sara Mac Key