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Is
An atmospheric novel set on the fictional island of Ör, off Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s native Åland Islands, finds this seasoned and much-lauded writer on top form.
TRANSLATED EXTRACT
from Ice by Ulla-Lena Lundberg
A Nordic bestseller, set in a Lutheran island community in the 1940s.
Translated by Thomas Teal
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Lyser och lågar
Ulla-Lena Lundberg and Negar Naseh: two women writers from different generations and cultural backgrounds, with voices as distinctive as the settings of their narratives. Their novels Light and Flame and A Handful of Wind offer spell-binding insights into the landscapes of their minds.