"Farewell to Panic Beach" by Sara Stridsberg
Stridsberg follows several generations from 1917 onwards in this book about guilt and hope. A family spends their summers together on the eternal beach of Panic Beach, living in "blinding light and abyssal darkness".
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"The First Book" by Karolina Ramqvist
Ramqvist returns to a theme from her debut and delves deeper into a love story on its way to its end, but weaves in Jamaica's brutal history. It's about how power and subordination shape the fate of the two lovers.
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"Sorrow Has a Memory" by Nina Bouraoui
In the pain of losing her father, Nina Bouraoui writes together her father's and her own life. Memories from Algiers and Paris come back to her, and become a portrayal of love and loss.
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"Johannes and You" by Per Hagman
It's described as an older cousin to "Coming Home Should Be a Hit" – but here, Per Hagman ponders life during walks to preschool, not in colorful bars. It's about childhood and a little girl's discovery of the world with her dad.
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“Ash in the Mouth” by Brenda Navarro
A sister tells in rage about her brother Diego, who was supposed to escape poverty in Mexico City but took his own life. The siblings grew up alone while their mother worked as a housekeeper in Madrid. Desperate about dreams, losses, and injustices in such different living conditions.
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"Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney
After successes like "Normal People" and "Conversations with Friends", she has many loyal fans. Sally Rooney's new novel is about two brothers – a chess player and a lawyer – and offers typical Rooney-style entanglements of love and communication barriers.
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“Exchange Rings with Darkness” by Bruno K Öijer
When the rock poet's first poetry collection since 2014 arrives, the publisher promises that readers will recognize both themes and his surprising, magical images.
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“The Order of Things” by Magdalena Sørensen
A daughter moves home to help her elderly mother in a house filled with clutter. "A family archaeology" is the subtitle of this original debut book. Here, a kind of research excavation is underway – of thousands of things and memories of a dysfunctional upbringing.
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Serhij Zjadan, ”Mesopotamia”
The fates of nine people intersect in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. They are people who find themselves in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Zjadan has written about the brutal reality of war in "Internat", and portrays here how people try to create a decent life.
“Night Walks” by Lina Wolff. 41 short prose texts about creation.
"The Second Daughter" by Annie Ernaux. A thin book, written in letter form to the sister who died before the Nobel laureate was born.
“Barbarian” by Amina Elmi. Mentioned by Danish literary critics in the same breath as Yahya Hassan. The poems revolve around brutality, violence – and being silenced.
"Blood Book" by Kim de l’Horizon. About a narrator whose grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, has dementia. Through language, the author tries to unravel family history and create a self beyond the norm.
"Canción" by Eduardo Halfon: A multi-layered narrative by the Berman Prize winner, about how Eduardo Halfon's Jewish and Syrian-Lebanese grandfather was kidnapped by guerrillas in Guatemala in the 1960s.
"Escape Point" by Maria Stepanova. About an author who becomes stranded in a city during the war, where she lives filled with shame but also feelings of freedom.
"Amadoka I and II" by Sofia Andruchovytj. A winding narrative that begins with Russia's invasion of Crimea, but weaves in 100 years of Ukrainian history. Translated by Nils Håkanson.
