Fru Inés is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Constantinople.
Written on the cusp of independence, as Estonia and Latvia sought to regain their sovereignty in 1991, The Beauty of History is a novel that can be seen as an historic document -... Læs mere
This is the first volume of a trilogy which marks the high point of outspokenness and originality of one of Norway's most controversial modern writers.
This is the last novel by Estonia's greatest twentieth-century writer, Anton Tammsaare, and it constitutes a fitting summation of the themes that occupied him throughout his writing: the search for truth and social justice, and the struggle against corruption and greed.
In 1946 Tallin a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream- coloured car gliding down the street. It is a Russian Pobeda, a car called Victory. The sympathetic driver invites the boy for a ride and enquires about his family. Soon the boy's father disappears.
Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906–07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later.
This autobiographical novel is based on Strindberg's life in the 1870s and 1880s, and focuses on his marriage to Siri von Essen.
Powderhouse is a novel which is set in an asylum for the criminally insane, where the narrator functions as a kind of porter, observing and commenting on the foibles of inmates and keepers alike
This volume marks the apex and the culmination of the provocative Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe's investigations into the nature of evil.
A satire of the rapidly changing society of the 1870s, it was Strindberg's first novel and marked his literary breakthrough. It contains some of the great set-piece scenes in Swedish... Læs mere
Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers' college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith, Malin plunges into a depression and a paralysis of will.