Translator: linda.schenck
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Norvik Press
Year of Publication: 2011
A novel of alternative endings, awash with ambiguity. A thriller before its time.
This short novel serves as the introduction to the other two volumes of The Löwensköld Trilogy. It introduces the Löwensköld family and the curse that comes to hover over them for several generations.
Translator: Kate Lambert
Author: Hedvig Hedqvist text & Åke E:son Lindman photography
Publisher: Votum Förlag
Year of Publication: 2010
The architecture and design of seventeen Swedish embassies around the world.
(Translated jointly with Stuart Tudball)
Translator: Sarah Death
Author: Katarina Mazetti
Publisher: Short Books
Year of Publication: 2010
Librarian meets dairy farmer in this comic novel.
A pale, style-conscious, politically-correct town librarian, recently widowed, and a bachelor dairy farmer mourning his capable mother and desperately in need of a traditional, hard-working wife – it’s never going to work. But the chemistry between them proves totally irresistible in this, probably the best-known novel by one of Sweden’s most popular comic writers.
ISBN 9781907595073
Translator: B.J. Woodstein
A book all about fun and inspiring things to do with concrete.
Translator: Neil Smith
Author: Ulf Nordfjell
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2010
Translator: Neil Smith
Author: Liza Marklund
Publisher: Corgi
Year of Publication: 2010
Translator: linda.schenck
Author: Annika Thor
Publisher: Random House
Year of Publication: 2009
All these two young Jewish girls from have is each other, and the hope that their parents will be able to join them in Sweden or that the war will end. As the war intensifies the girls try to find their feet on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden in two families very different from each other and from the one they have left behind.
This is volume one of Annika Thor’s brilliant young adult tetralogy that follows two Austrian sisters sent on a “kindertransport” to Sweden as World War II begins. They are fostered out to two very different families on an island in the Gothenburg archipelago. A Faraway Island covers their first year in Sweden, and won the 2009 Batchelder Award.
Translator: linda.schenck
Author: Kerstin Ekman
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Year of Publication: 2009
On the first page of God’s Mercy we meet a first-person narrator who remains with us almost throughout the entire trilogy. She is a six-year-old Sami child, eventually adopted by the midwife who is the protagonist of the first volume, and whose grandchild becomes the protagonist of the third. Ekman’s language is captivating, as is the tale itself.
God’s Mercy begins a trilogy that follows the lives of a number of people whose lives intertwine from the early twentieth century nearly to the present day. In this volume the protagonist is a midwife who journeys to employment in the north, following the clergyman she believes she loves. But life has a great deal more in store for her than the life of a minister’s wife.
Translator: Paul Norlen
Author: Selma Lagerlöf
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Year of Publication: 2009
A rousing classic by a Novel Prize-winning author
The first book by Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) is the story of Gösta Berling, a defrocked minister, and the “cavaliers” who live on a Swedish estate in the 1820s.
