Reviews by Karin Filipsson
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Vit melankoli: En analys av en nation i kris
White Melancholy: An Analysis of a Nation in Crisis takes a timely look at Sweden’s shift from ethnic homogeneity to the more diverse society we see today.
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Förintelsens Barn
Margit Silberstein’s Children of the Holocaust is an important story to tell in today’s transcultural Sweden, as the discussion of migrant/postmigrant identity is an increasingly relevant topic in the political and cultural discourse.
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Narrative Non-Fiction
A curated list of recent highlights in narrative non-fiction, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.
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Brev till mannen
In Letters to Men, comedian, actress, and author Bianca Kronlöf addresses the men in her own peer group to ask for their loyalty, help and commitment to the feminist struggle for gender equality.
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Babetta
Set in the South of France and inspired by cinema, Nina Wähä’s novel Babetta is a mysterious story of friendship in which nothing is as it seems.
Translations by Karin Filipsson
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from Children of the Holocaust by Margit Silberstein
Swedish journalist and writer Margit Silberstein tells the story of her parents’ escape from the Holocaust, interwoven with her own experience of navigating her Jewish heritage while growing up in postwar Sweden.
Translated by Karin Filipsson.