New Swedish Books, autumn 2020 1
New Swedish Books 44 Jackie The jury: Evocative!
A real pageturner that’s hard to put down. Timeless themes of love, violence and power. ”It all begins early one summer on a delayed train heading for the capital and her new life. It’s like she already knows that something is about to take place and she registers everyone in her carriage. A feeling in the air, she doesn’t know of what yet, but if something does happen she will probably be the most observant of witnesses.” Anne Swärd’s latest novel is about a young woman on her way to Stockholm and the new life waiting for her there. It’s the hot summer of 1988 and nothing has happened yet. The man she later meets is beyond anything she could have ever imagined. In Anne Swärd’s gripping and visceral narrative we are taken on a compelling journey through an ambiguous emotional portrait. From the highest highs to the depths of despair, Swärd drives the reader inexorably forward in this tale of love, obsession and survival. Anne Swärd Novel, 370 p. Anne Swärd Publisher Albert Bonniers Förlag Rights Nordin Agency Anna Frankl anna@nordinagency.se Photo: Thron Ullberg