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And the Walls Became the World All Around

Och väggarna förvandlades till världen runtomkring

Johanna Ekström (born 1970), Sigrid Rausing (born 1962)

Translated by Sigrid Rausing

English editions

In English

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Between 2019 and 2022, as Covid closed the world down and illness narrowed it further, a writer filled notebooks with ideas, readings and dreams, with love and the pain of love, with the feeling that disaster is always just about to happen. Small details from home run through them: winter light, a bird on a neighbour's roof, a child singing. After her death, a friend selected passages from these notes and set her own thoughts beside them, continuing a dialogue cut short by cancer: a work of mourning and of reflection on dying.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
243 pages in the original
Set in
Sweden
First published
2023 by Albert Bonniers förlag
Author's age
Johanna Ekström 53, Sigrid Rausing 61 when first published
ISBN

9789100800970 (original)

9781803511566 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)