Archive for September 15, 2010

BETWEEN SUMMER’S LONGING AND WINTER’S END by Leif GW Persson

At the center of this Swedish espionage thriller is the death of an American journalist, John P. Krassner, circa 1988. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder? The facts known at the opening is that first his body and then his boot falls from the 16th floor of a student dormitory. The boot struck and killed a Pomeranian named Charlie. Charlie’s owner, Vindel, is trying to recount the seconds between the body and the boot falling from the window. After this wry and arresting opening, the reader is plunged into a dense and plodding world of Swedish politics.

September 15, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Real Event Fiction, Sweden, Thriller/Spy/Caper, Translated, World Literature  No Comments


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