Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Jävla karlar (Damn Men), Andrev Walden delivers a brilliant and darkly funny debut that transforms chaos and trauma into sharp, lyrical storytelling. The novel, which won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize, recounts the author’s unusual childhood seven different fathers in seven years […]
David Lagercrantz, best known for continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, returns with False Note, a dark and unsettling short story that explores the destructive bond between father and son. Translated from Swedish by Elizabeth DeNoma, this entry in Amazon’s Alibis collection examines […]
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Sisters is a big, generous novel that aims for the whole constellation of a life: family, diaspora, art, love, ambition, and the curse of loss that seems to hover over every generation. Told across three decades and structured […]