Reviews

‘None of us can say we didn’t know. Now you know too’.

A collection of texts that offer possible solutions to apparently insurmountable problems.

When Emilia finally ‘comes home’, little of what she remembers still stands in the new Euro-Poland. What was that past of hers – a dream?

Memoir, travel writing, adoption studies, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, essays, Sweden, South Korea.

A singular collection of poetry in which the present is conveyed through the presence of the past.

Highly conceptual poetry which goes much deeper than mere experimentation.

Åkerman’s book opens up new perspectives on the queen who had admired Alexander the Great since she was a child, who refused to marry, and who sought to develop intellectual networks abroad.

Janson explodes dangerous myths, traces a complicated history and reveals linguistic connections that together were, and are, misused by nationalists and racists to invent a past that suited their political objectives.

‘The problem is the same everywhere: introducing democracy hurts.’

Andersson's book is a call to arms against the sterile, anonymous, uniform and ubiquitous ‘grey boxes’ of Finnish modernism.

Tichý carries his prose like a great central European writer of the 20th century.

Socially aware and experimentally inclined.

It was with good reason that the publisher decided to send a copy of the novel to the leaders of all the Swedish political parties.

This linked story collection grabs us with its oddity from story one.

Outsiders, creativity, challenging boundaries, and finding one’s identity.

Svensson creates neologisms and plays with nursery rhymes, children’s stories, pirate lore, and other intertextual references, making her novel intricate and intriguing.

Stockholm medical academia provides a neat setting for this sensitive, educated, music-loving female detective.

This is a novel that plays with the genre that has brought Swedish writing international attention, with the crime writer as protagonist, perpetrator and potential victim.