Reviews

Haridi grapples with tricky subjects such as mental illness and urban poverty from a child’s skewed perspective.

It is natural as time passes to re-evaluate our relationship with our late parents.

Alsterdal has been carving out a niche as a writer of page-turners with a political, international flavour.

‘Of course, Stalin wasn’t as perfect as Putin’.

As the pages turn, each successive image zooms out, first to the park, then to the town, countryside, ocean, earth, moon and eventually the solar system.

Öland: ‘A place where a chilly, salty taste forms a membrane, coating and soothing ever-open wounds which will always struggle to heal’.

There are different ways to write about the Holocaust.

A provocative retelling of Roland Paulsen’s study of Sweden’s Public Employment Service.

As in Alejandro Almenábar’s 2001 film ‘The Others’, the encounters with the dead challenge and unsettle our perception of reality.

Nothing is what it seems in Edenborg’s counterfactual historical romance.

The thriller lives!

Readers will surely ponder these perceptive, thought-provoking essays long afterwards.

A comic book with kidnappings, changelings, fortunes sought and happy homecomings.

The setting, the ‘Indian village’ – a nickname for the flats belonging to the local Volvo factory – symbolises the democratic dream of providing a decent life for all workers. But the dream of equality is trashed by the brokenness of those who live there today.

Kristina Sandberg’s monumental trilogy about Maj Berglund, a housewife from the small town of Örnsköldsvik, is a tour de force.

We have two different parents: one called Yeltsin, the other Putin.

Saga is a strong female character; it’s a delight to read a novel about a teenage girl who finds her own way and isn’t afraid of being different.

Thunander lets the people she meets speak for themselves – much of the text is directly quoted dialogue.