Entertainment

Fredrik Backman on the Art of Scandinavian Storytelling

Swedish, the original language of the novelist Friedrich Pakman, speaks only about ten million people, so the writer feels that all his books-including more perfect. “A man named off“” “Anxiety peopleAnd “and”Bertown“A trilogy – translated into English. Backman enjoys the opportunity to work as a permitting of contemporary Swedish literature, and to the broader literary tradition in the country. From the fictional northern stories and folklore stories to Astrid Lindgren’s.”PIPPI LongStockingHe said, “SCANDI-NIR,” Everything is driven by the character, “he said:” They are everything about people’s relationships, emotions and growth. “Backman, his last book,”my friends“It comes out in May, joined us recently to discuss four other Swedish novels that will appear in English this year, working, like her, and is deeply rooted in traditions of telling stories in Scandinavia. His comments were edited and intensified.

Colony

Written by Annika Norlin

In essence, this book is a study of the group’s dynamics. The main character, Emily, is burned from life in the big city, so it moves to the northern Swedish forests. There you find a small group of people who live together, led by an attractive woman called Sarah. But Emily’s arrival disrupts the role of everyone, and from this tension highlights an extraordinary story about trying to find your place in modern society.

Nurlin’s characters are all very real; She knows every feeling of every person, which is difficult to do and requires a lot of investment. It also has a great and unpredictable way in writing. It is both a journalist and poetry, and it moves back and forth between the records in a way in which a few can be able to writes. It tends towards reports, but there are beautiful hidden camels all the time, and when you find one, it just knocks you.

When the cranes flies in the south

Written by Lisa Ridzin

It is difficult, to give up your body from you, and this deep -moving story contradicts that, and with sadness and death. This follows an elderly man, Bo, who lives alone with his dog after his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, is transferred to a life assistance facility. When Bo begins to think about what his life is, he tries to reconcile with his adult son, who had a preserved relationship.

The book is a gentle depiction of the relationship of the father and son and brutally exploring what it seems to be interested in an old person and dies. It is the heart and funny without being above the top, and there are no cartoons. It is one of those books that you will laugh, you will cry, you will want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love. “

Sisters

Written by Jonas Hasan Khmeri

In Scandinavian countries, Khumairi is easily considered one of the most respectable and decorating authors in my generation. This book, the seventh, is a classic story about the rivalry of brotherhood, and it follows three chaotic and loving sisters for thirty years. They have a Tunisian mother and a Swedish father, and the story opens with them living in Stockholm as young adults. One of them becomes an actress, one escapes to Tunisia and falls in love with a woman, and one moves to New York, where she suddenly disappears.

Khumiri, who is also of Swedish and Tunisian origin, knows and teaches in New York; He is a real citizen in the world, and he picks up this experience in a very live way. This is one of the best novels that I have ever read about the complexities of mixed heritage. In nearly seven hundred pages, the book is very long, but the linguistics paid – it has a frequency flow that makes you forget that you are reading.

Hope and destiny

Written by Niklas Nat Osh Dag

This major piece of historical imagination, which is located in the thirteenth century, has everything that you can wish for in the story of: kings and rebels, betrayal and killing, a tragic love story that seems to be destroyed. The book revolves widely on how Sweden Sweden, through power struggles in early Scandinavian countries and how they formed our culture and the entire way of living. However, in her heart, it is a wonderful picture of people: the rulers try to hold together the kingdom together, the rebels who are fighting to win it, and nobles trying to negotiate the future of their children, and women rush to defend their homes – all of this with very clear motives and strikes.

The book is a very teacher, but you never feel as if you were drowning in the facts, and the narration seems related to the world today, and ask questions like: What is the country, and who controls it? How much is the country that the law can rule and how much power should be governed? Compared to the United States and the United Kingdom, the Scandinavian countries did not produce much in the path of historical imagination. Natt Och Dag, by mixing this type with the traditions of happy stories novel, helped open new doors, and I expect a lot of Scandinavian historical imagination in the next two years.

Related Articles

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back to top button