Kerstin Ekman's novel Blackwater took the world by storm in 1993
and has now been translated into over twenty-five languages. But
her reputation as one of Sweden's best-known and most successful
authors rests just as securely upon the series of four novels she
wrote between 1974 and 1983, which are based on the author's
childhood home town of Katrineholm some forty miles southwest of
Stockholm. The first of these, Witches' Rings, which portrays the
final years of the nineteenth century in a small urban community on
the cusp of industrialisation, was published by Norvik Press in
1997. The Spring, which focuses on the lives of three women, Tora,
Frida and Ingrid, moves the story on from the early twentieth
century to the interwar years. According to Ekman herself, two
major socio-psychological studies carried out in Katrineholm
indicate 'that this was a community with which its inhabitants were
content... I have devoted eleven years of my life to maintaining
the exact opposite.' This is accomplished in a narrative of great
subtlety and compelling power; once again Kerstin Ekman recreates
the past with an authenticity that resonates urgently in the
present.
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