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Witches' Rings (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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Witches' Rings portrays the history of a rural society in a new
light, tracing its development through the lives of working class
women and children rather than authorities and decision-makers. The
central character is a woman so anonymous that her name is not even
mentioned on her gravestone. This novel, written in 1974 and now
published for the first time in English, is the first volume of a
tetralogy which follows a Swedish community through a hundred years
of recent history to the present day.
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City of Light (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the
Swedish town in which she grew up in order to sell the old house
she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are
everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house, alone
with her memories of her father, an idiosyncratic character whom
only she truly understood. She is also nervously awaiting the
arrival of her daughter, and now realises that she has never really
tried to understand her. With this eloquent and gripping story
Kerstin Ekman concludes her epic sequence of novels, Women and the
City (whose earlier volumes Witches' Rings, The Spring and The
Angel House are also available from Norvik Press). City of Light is
an intensely moving novel about love, in a rich and unusual variety
of forms, and also a sensitive and thoughtful depiction of the way
in which human beings approach life and one another.
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The Angel House (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Sarah Death
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The Angel House is the third in the remarkable series of
free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in
her native Sweden during the 1970s, long before she achieved
world-wide success with novels like Blackwater and The Forest of
Hours. It follows the fortunes of the inhabitants of a provincial
Swedish town familiar from the previous two books in the sequence,
Witches' Rings and The Spring, from the late 1920s to the Second
World War, when events beyond the boundaries of neutral Sweden
threaten to disrupt the regular rhythms of life. With this sequence
of novels focussing primarily on the lives of ordinary women,
Kerstin Ekman provides an alternative, subversive history of the
community in which she grew up, and gives a finely-drawn portrait
of a town in transition. The Angel House is published here for the
first time in English in a translation by Sarah Death, an
acknowledged expert on Kerstin Ekman's work.
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The Spring (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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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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Childhood (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Foreword by Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Rochelle Wright
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Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has
occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is
autobiographical. In 1993-1994, Swedish TV 1 conducted a series of
talks with prominent writers under the rubric 'Seven Boys and Seven
Girls'. In place of an ordinary interview, Kerstin Ekman read aloud
Barndom (Childhood). The poem, which was published for the first
time in Swedish Book Review in 1995, appears here with original
photographs kindly provided by the author. The prose passages are
quotations from Ekman's 1988 novel Rovarna i Skuleskogen (The
Forest of Hours).
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God's Mercy (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Linda Schenck
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R652
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When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the
university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet
(Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiance, she is ill prepared
for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated
territory, she encounters the overwhelming and unpredictable forces
of nature and demoralizing poverty and ignorance while also gaining
access to the unfamiliar world of nomadic Sami reindeer herders. A
single traumatic event, never fully confronted, has devastating and
far-reaching repercussions, but Hillevi also finds unexpected
warmth and love. Incorporating elements of the "jojk" oral
tradition of Sami culture, "God's Mercy" is a thoroughly engrossing
story about the capriciousness of memory, the resilience of the
human psyche, and the endless wonder of the wild.
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Blackwater (Paperback)
Kerstin Ekman; Translated by Joan Tate
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On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia
in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan
on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she
sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will
remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees
her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the
forest that eerie midsummer night.
Like" Gorky Park "and "Smilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater" is a
unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are
as strikingly compelling as the exotic northern landscape that
envelops them.
Midsummer eve, 1974, in the far north of Sweden. Annie Raft arrives with her six-year-old daughter in a small town called Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a commune. But Dan is not there to meet them. Panicking, Annie treks into the wilderness to find the commune, in the strange, hovering light of midsummer night. By the river, she finds a tent;and inside it two bodies hideously murdered - stabbed so violently that the feathers from their sleeping bag scatter the ground. Many years later, Annie has settled in the region, and Mia, her daughter has grown up. Early one morning glimpses Mia in the arms of the man she believes responsible for the murders. The seemingly inexplicable crime, long buried, is forced to come to its own dark and unexpected conclusion.
From the author of the highly acclaimed" Blackwater" comes a
beautiful fable exploring the bond between a man and a dog In the
heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to
eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the safe haven
of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle
for survival in the wild. Suddenly, he must find food and a safe
place to sleep, and outwit his competitor, the fox. The puppy
becomes wild himself, trusting no human and furiously fighting the
hunting dogs that enter his domain. But one man is intrigued by the
now-unruly dog and very slowly begins to gain his trust. Each day
he visits the dog, bringing food and awakening memories of his
distant domestic past. The lost relationship between man and dog is
rebuilt in this sensitive and intelligent story about the true
nature of trust and friendship.
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