Splendor

In May 2017 the writer Stefan runs into Mathias 'Splendor' Johansson outside a Stockholm café. Splendor once belonged to Paradise, a cult with wildly inflated aims that took a psychedelic drug so that souls, memories and future would merge. Before long it is clear he knows of something in Stefan's life that Stefan himself has pushed away. Mixing autofiction with tall tale, the book is a black comedy and a spiritual picaresque, part mystery and part love story, that bores into the self, into grief and into nightmarish despair.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

263 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 2017

First published

2020 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9789100182038 (original)