Svinalängorna

Leena's Finnish family moves into a brand-new estate in Ystad, full of immigrants and the low-paid, and the flat seems like luxury. But drink and powerlessness govern the grown-ups, and their daily life slowly comes apart behind the small-town façade. Leena and two friends, gifted at surviving, work out their own ways through it, in a story about class and vulnerability told with dark humour.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

259 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 1960s–1970s

First published

2006 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789100110338 (original)

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