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A student living in the centre of Stockholm, Elise is forever hunting for something to calm her nerves. Her phone tracks her location around the clock, she meets men through a dating app, and she and her friends trade notes on their medication. The men she actually fancies are in their fifties or sixties, steady creatures, she thinks, like big grazing animals that never worry and only want food, rest and a good story; she wishes she could be like them. Then she meets Victor, who is her age, and for a while feels simple, direct joy, until it drains away and leaves a hollow. The novel asks how love can still be declared at a time when language feels used up, yet people still crave intimacy.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

294 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2017 by Natur & Kultur

Author's age

29 when first published

ISBN

9789127152427 (original)