New Swedish Books, Autumn 2018 1
5 Autumn 2018 Cilla Naumann (b. 1960) The Neveren
ding Family Publisher Albert Bonniers Förlag www.albertbonniersforlag.se Rights Bonnier Rights Elisabet Brännström elisabet.brannstrom@ bonnierrights.se Selected Works Dom, novel, 2000 I cirklarna runt, novel, 2009 Springa med åror, novel, 2012 Selected Literary Prizes Katapultpriset 1996 De Nios Vinterpris 2008 Stiftelsen Natur & Kulturs arbetsstipendium 2013 The Neverending Family A family plunges from a 19th floor balcony to the snow-covered ground far below. When a girl in the building opposite is woken by the sound of sirens she knows that something terrible has happened. For many years to come she will ask herself who those people were, until her memories and imaginings are woven together into a fantasy about their lives. Cilla Naumann’s latest novel depicts the fatal encounter between a Californian family and a cold, closed Sweden in the late 70s. She succeeds in creating a book that is at once almost unbearably difficult to read, and impossible to put down. With an unerring eye for psychology, Naumann tells a story about the power of lies and denial to drive two parents into madness, and their daughter’s attempt to bear the responsibility that her parents are trying to escape. Photo: Charlie Drevstam