Scandinavian literature

Book Reviews

• Kjell Askildsen: Everything Like Before
  - stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
• Per Olov Enquist: The March of the Musicians
  - a novel about labour unrest in Sweden's bleak north
• Peter Høeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
  - an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
• Ida Jessen: A Change of Time*
  - facing widowhood in a Danish country town
• Hans Olav Lahlum: K2 and Patricia
  The Human Flies; Satellite People
• Torgny Lindgren: Bathsheba
  - an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
• Cecilia Lindqvist: China, Empire of the Written Symbol**
  - Chinese history and culture through written characters
• Hanne Ørstavik: The Pastor
  - finding herself in far-northern Norway
• Cora Sandel: Alberta and Jacob*
  - coming of age in a small town in northern Norway
• Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö: The Story of a Crime: the Martin Beck series
  - the classic Swedish police procedurals
• Richard Swartz: A House In Istria
  - obsessions talking past one another
• Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter*
  - a family saga set in medieval Norway
• Tarjei Vesaas: The Hills Reply
  - prose poetry, coming of age in Norwegian landscapes

See also: Scandinavia