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from Kabul Sthlm Paris
Kristian Hallberg's Kabul Sthlm Paris is a polyphonic, multi-media piece of documentary theatre that shines a light on the disorienting and at times dehumanising asylum process.
Adapted and translated by Johanna Larsson.
Image credit: Nadim Elazzeh.
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FEATURE
Care - a Nobler Form of Love
A tribute to Ragnar Thoursie (1919-2010) – poet and civil servant – who died aged 90 on 12 July 2010.
By Brita Green. Translations by Brita Green and John Charlesworth.
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from The Worms on Carmine Street by Håkan Nesser
The Worms on Carmine Street is about the search for a child who has disappeared. But it is also about other things: guilt, loss and existential loneliness – and about being taken in by circumstances over which a person has no control.
Translated by James Walker
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from The Queen's Surgeon by Agneta Pleijel
The Queen's Surgeon is the first part of a family history that draws on aspects of Agneta Pleijel's own history, discussing power, gender and insatiable ambition.
Translated by Silvester Mazzarella
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from Still Waters by Viveca Sten
Viveca Sten's fist novel, set on the atmospheric island of Sandhamn.
Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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from The Practice of Murder by Kerstin Ekman
A novel in which the main character believes himself to be the model for Hjalmar Söderberg's eponymous protagonist Doctor Glas.
Translated by Sarah Death, Anna Paterson, Linda Schenck and Rochelle Wright.
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from All the Wild Ones by Birgitta Stenberg
The penultimate volume in Birgitta Stenberg's suite of autobiographical novels, 'Love in Europe'.
Translated by Henning Koch
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from The American House by Sven Olov Karlsson
The demoralised and run-down former industrial town of Eriksfors is the atmospheric setting for a revenge drama in Sven Olov Karlsson's second novel.
Translated by Neil Smith
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from Aliide, Aliide by Mare Kandre
A small girl lost in the world and experiencing for the first time the confusions and horrors of life.
Translated by Eric Dickens