from A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking
(Ett år av apokalyptiskt tänkande)
by Linda Spåman
translated by Henning Koch
In 2020, Linda Spåman’s father is diagnosed with motor neurone disease. She decides to be with him every day in what remains of his life, and to do her utmost to respect his last wishes, which, in the end, prove to be rather plentiful. A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking is a dark comedy, a tragi-comic “feel-bad” story that speaks of the finality of death, but also life, love, damaged relationships, and the promises we try to keep - but sometimes cannot. Above all, it is a story of someone wishing to decide the manner in which their life should end. Anyone who has experienced loss, or who mourns a departed friend, will recognise the ongoing dialogue between the dead father and his daughter in A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking - a dialogue that may even be the key to healing and letting go.
Ett år av apokalyptiskt tänkande
Galago förlag, 2025. 250 pp. ISBN: 9789177754688.
We are grateful to the publisher for their permission to publish this extract.
Linda Spåman (born 1976) is a writer, artist, scenographer and comic book creator. She produces both performance and three-dimensional works, as well as graphic novels in her individualistic illustrative style. A Year of Apocalyptic Thinking, reviewed in SBR 2026:1, is Linda Spåman’s eighth book and her first with Galago. It was nominated for the Swedish August Prize in the literary category.