A summer with Kim Novak (16 page)

Håkan Nesser
is one of Sweden’s most famous crime writers. He made his name with his popular series featuring Inspector Van Veeteren, authored the highly-acclaimed series focusing on Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti and is also known for a number of exciting stand-alone novels, including
A Summer with Kim Novak
. His award-winning books have been made into TV series and films and enjoy great international success.

Saskia Vogel’s translations include
All Monsters Must Die: An Excursion to North Korea
by Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman,
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?
by Katrine Marçal, and works of fiction by Rut Hillarp and Lina Wolff, among others.

Esther Gerritsen
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Craving

The relationship between Coco and her mother Elisabeth is uneasy, to say the least. Running into each other by chance, Elisabeth casually tells Coco that she is terminally ill. When Coco moves in with her mother in order to take care of her, aspects of their troubled relationship come to the fore once again. Elisabeth tries her best to conform to the image of a caring mother, but struggles to deal with Coco’s erratic behaviour and unpredictable moods.

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Anne-Gine Goemans •
Gliding Flight

Inventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father and a flock of geese on a spotters’ campground next to an airstrip. Gieles longs for affection—from the mysterious dreadlocked girl he has met online, and from his mother, who is always away on hopeless missions to save the world. With an ingenious but dangerous plan he tries to attract their attention.

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Ayesha Harruna Attah •
Saturday’s Shadows

The protagonists of
Saturday’s Shadows
experience the fine line between sanity and madness as they try to find and hold on to love in the volatile world of
1990
s West Africa. After a seventeen-year military dictatorship, a country tries to find its footing while the members of the middle-class Avoka family lurch towards destruction. They live in a politically complex climate, a time so tenuous that the country could easily dip back into its military past.

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Linda Boström Knausgård •
The Helios Disaster

The Helios Disaster
is a mythical tale in which a father gives birth to a twelve-year-old girl, splitting his head in the process. Father and daughter are separated. The girl is placed into foster care and comes under the spell of the Pentecostal movement. When she starts speaking in tongues, she’s admitted to a psychiatric ward. All the time, she longs to meet her father and eventually they run away together. The question of who the girl and her father are, draws nearer. So close that the gods start to long for them. So much that eventually they cause the Helios disaster in order to bring them home.

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Johannes Anyuru •
A Storm Blew in from Paradise

A Storm Blew in from Paradise
is both the story of Anyuru’s father, P, a Ugandan pilot who deserted, and Johannes Anyuru himself. Both men grew up without their fathers, an emotional void that had a serious impact on their lives. P makes a promising start as a fighter-pilot, but no matter what he does or where he goes, he is unable to escape his fate. He finds himself a refugee, on the run like a hunted animal—while his only dream is to fly.

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Steinunn Sigurðardóttir •
Yo-yo

While examining the tumour of one of his patients, Martin Montag, a cancer specialist in Berlin, finds that its shape, resembling a yo-yo, brings back memories of a traumatic incident he suffered as a child. A drama of betrayal and friendship unfolds, intriguingly told by one of Iceland’s best-known contemporary writers.

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Renate Dorrestein •
The Darkness that Divides Us

Growing up in a peaceful Dutch village with her eccentric mother and their two endearing male lodgers, Lucy is the popular leader of the pre-school set—until a bizarre crime rocks her world. After her mother has served time for murder, Lucy, her mother and her ‘uncles’ leave the village to start over in the Outer Hebrides. But even in this remote corner of the world, the past has a way of catching up with her…

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Kristien Hemmerechts •
The Woman who Fed the Dogs

Odette is the most hated woman in Belgium. She spends her days in jail, being the accomplice in a horrifying crime she was dragged into by her husband. Who is this woman? Why did she never stop him? Does she deserve a second chance, or is she an unscrupulous monster?

The Woman who Fed the Dogs
is based on the true story of the ex-wife and accomplice of murderer and sociopath Marc Dutroux.