Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred

Dokument rörande spelaren Rubashov

Det är nyårsnatt i Sankt Petersburg, snart ska stadens kyrkklockor ringa in det nya seklet och den mångtusenhövdade skaran på Nevski stämma upp sina hurrarop. Ensam på sitt rum sitter den förfallne spelaren Josef Rubashov, utfattig och färdig fö

The Merman

Nella and her brother Robert live a difficult life with their mother and father in a small town on the west coast of Sweden. Robert is bullied at school, and Nella has to resort to debt and petty crime to pay off his tormentors. When she turns to her frie

Kunzelmann & Kunzelmann

Den som har läst Carl-Johan Vallgrens För herr Bachmanns broschyr, från 1998, kommer att känna igen det dräpande och gycklande draget i den fräcka samhällskritiken när Vallgren nu beskriver Sverige på det begynnande tvåtusentalet. De läsare (oc

Doctor Glas

Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas

From Prehistory to the Renaissance (A History of the Swedish People, #1)

Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist Vilhelm Moberg's two-volume popular history of the Swedish people approaches its subject from the viewpoint of the common people, documenting peasants' live

The Magnetist's Fifth Winter

Is he an impostor, the peculiar magnetist Friedrich Meisner, or is he a man of marvelous gifts – or maybe both?A German magnetist and doctor named Meisner arrives in Seefond in the autumn of 1793. In the town lives a doctor together with his blind daugh

The Locked Room (Martin Beck, #8)

In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and sol

Josephine

Josefina es la hija del pastor de la localidad. Acude por primera vez al colegio y no le resulta fácil adaptarse. Entre otras cosas, porque la llaman con su verdadero nombre, Ana, que a ella no le gusta. Hace amistad con Hugo, un chico que vive en el bos