In the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain
Translator: Saskia Vogel
Author: Elisabeth Åsbrink
Publisher: Other Press
Year of Publication: 2020
Winner of the August Prize.
The story of the complicated long-distance relationship between a Jewish child and his forlorn Viennese parents after he was sent to Sweden in 1939, and the unexpected friendship the boy developed with the future founder of IKEA, a Nazi activist.