Våran pojke

Johan has a seemingly normal childhood in a tidy home, with mates who are a bit strange and carry blades, and he drifts through his schooling without much thought. Then he kills a woman and her small child, unsure why. No one suspects him; he carries on with job-centre courses and cleaning shifts, hardly changed. Next door, Jonna is visited by Glenn Bensino, a feverish know-all obsessed with computers, radios, codes and voices coming from the electrical outlets, and she is glad of his protection. Meanwhile her boyfriend Jocke keeps growing younger, upsetting the balance in the household. The novel moves between absurd comedy and bleak sadness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

223 pages in the original

Set in

Sweden

First published

2025 by Bokförlaget Polaris

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789180663458 (original)