Bli som folk

Nine stories from Västerbotten, in Sweden's far north, a region in slow transformation, shifting between today and earlier times and between the worlds of children and adults. A girl called Sandra swears that she has concealed a corpse of her own. An older woman named Gun takes a lover, whose grandson later inherits his Zündapp motorbike and perhaps something more. Fresia's father favours a white sweatband and enjoys measuring fingers and toes. Then there are the puzzles: a pine-tree air freshener found inside a fish, bear prints in the roadside mud, and what may be lurking beneath a well lid.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

211 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2015 by Norstedts

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789113066547 (original)