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The Journey of Anders Sparrman
A poetic, enthralling novel based on the life of one of the early botanist-explorers Anders Sparrman. He sailed with Cook to the Antarctic, explored the South African interior, and became a passionate abolitionist.
The Air Cage
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Raderingar
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Love's Gravity
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Compass Bearing
Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Hildred Crill. Per Wästberg's poems move through landscape and memory recreating neighborhoods, houses and docks in sharp detail while at the same time contemplating invisible forces: Time's bones are brittle and the cold bath house in a deplorable state. Insurance for longhorn beetle not paid. The cuckoo calls from a large saucepan. Under a thinned sky we dip into sweetness of overripe fruit. The self-analytical shadows pass over the spirit level's blind eye. The poems track the interior of the self as well as imagined lives of others through time, through childhood, youth, love and death. Yet they give no easy determination of place, no simplistic discovery of direction. Even the process of dying is closely and slowly observed in advance, both the physicality ("Like when you let go of a load of wood and pull off an icy glove") and the ineffable ("But the alphabet still glows, like asteroids over the expanses of snow"). COMPASS BEARING presents twenty of Wästberg's poems in translation selected from his 2004 collection, Tillbaka i tid (Back in Time), poems that span more than five decades.
Erik och Margot : en kärlekshistoria
”Jag minns inte längre exakt vad jag kände då jag omsider fick klart för mig att Erik och Margot, min pappa och min moster som var nästan åtta år yngre än min mamma Greta, hade varit ett älskande par under hela min barndom och uppväxt. Lika litet som mina syskon hade jag någonsin misstänkt det. Något sjätte sinne hade inte väglett mig.” Så börjar denna sällsamma skildring av en kärlek som inleddes då Erik var trettiotvå, Margot sjutton, och varade en livstid utan att avslöjas. Det har blivit Per Wästbergs allra djupast personliga och mest gripande berättelse. Han trodde sig stå närmare sin pappa än någon annan och dela allt med honom. Men Erik levde ett dubbel...
