Odenplan

A man living in a temporary flat after his separation drops his young son at school, sees the boy has no mittens, buys some and sets out to deliver them. The short trip grows into a long one. Around Odenplan he passes smart, freshly wealthy streets that must still make room for broken lives, while above and beneath the pavement a cold drive for order rules. His own guilt resurfaces, memories of Central Europe invade a mind that is falling apart, and the sights and odours of Stockholm become overpowering. Meanwhile, what those mittens are worth keeps changing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

287 pages in the original

Set in

Sweden

First published

2019 by Nirstedt/litteratur

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789198505528 (original)