Sara Stridsberg Books

A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden's most exciting literary talents

The award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father's absence. The book tackles a difficult subject with great tenderness, validating a child's experience of a parent suffering from depression. "This poignant, gentle book . . . will be immensely helpful to anyone caring for the child of someone with major depression. It fills an important gap in literature for young children."—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon (winner of the National Book Award) and Far From the Tree Zoe’s dad isn’t home. She still sees him in photographs, laughing and playing tennis, but for now she can only visit him in a building where everyone looks sad and the walls are an ugly pink color. Some days Zoe’s dad is too sad to see her, but she goes to the hospital anyway. While waiting she meets Sabina who invites her to swim across the world. Zoe’s not sure it’s possible, but Sabina tells her, “A girl can do everything she wants.” Even though Sabina sometimes dives deep into her own thoughts, the two of them swim around the world many times that summer, until eventually Zoe’s dad is ready to come home. The Summer of Diving is a book full of imagination and hope with a tender child’s-eye understanding of the world. Stridsberg’s story and Lundberg’s lush and colorful paintings reflect and validate a child’s feelings of loss and longing for closeness when a parent’s joy for living temporarily fades.

A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away. A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light.

The narrative explores the simple joy of playing in the park, evolving into a profound reflection on life. Through Sara Stridsberg's insightful writing and Beatrice Alemagna's unique illustrations, the book captures the beauty of childhood experiences while delving into deeper themes of existence and connection.

A stunning, shocking novel, bringing to life one of the most controversial, forgotten and fascinating characters of second-wave feminism.

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

A collection of lyrical, genre-spanning short stories that reveal the magic and the tragedy of the mundane, from the International Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Faculty of Dreams.

Lolita ist die berühmteste Verführerin aus dem Roman des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sara Stridsberg hat eine neue Lolita geschaffen. Messerscharf seziert Stridsberg die Figur dieser rätselhaften Frau - Lolita als Kind, vom Vater misshandelt, Lolita als Männer verschlingender Vamp, als Mutter, Opfer und Täterin. Stridsberg erzählt präzise und gnadenlos die schmerzhaft schöne Geschichte aller Lolitas dieser Welt. Nie anklagend, sondern staunend, dass das Miteinander von Frau und Mann immer noch nicht so einfach ist. Entstanden ist ein fesselnder, sprachgewaltiger Roman.

Szczera, odważna i przejmująca opowieść o ludziach wykluczonych ze społeczeństwa. Inteligentna książka, która zachęca do jak najpełniejszego korzystania z życia. The Herald Po tym, jak Jim Darling trafia do szpitala dla psychicznie chorych w Beckomberdze, jego córka Jackie zaczyna spędzać w nim coraz więcej czasu. Kiedy jej matka wyjeżdża nad Morze Czarne, szpital staje się dla Jackie całym światem. Co noc jeden z lekarzy, Edvard Winterson, zabiera Jima i kilku innych pacjentów na nocne imprezy do swojego mieszkania przy placu Lill-Jansplan. W szpitalu pracuje pielęgniarka Inger Vogel, która działa na granicy porządku i chaosu. Jest też Sabina ze swoimi perłami i zgryzotami, jest Paul i miłość, prawdziwe szaleństwo. Beckomberga. Oda do mojej rodziny to powieść o marzeniu, aby utrzymać w świetle kogoś, kto nigdy nie chciał w nim być. To także opowieść o strachu i tęsknocie za upadkiem. Język Sary Stridsberg jest fascynujący, czysty, piękny i poruszający Jej powieść bez wątpienia należy do najbardziej przekonujących i fascynujących powieści, jakie ukazały się w tym roku. Helsingborgs Dagblad

Vier zeitgenössische Autorinnen beleuchten in diesem Buch zentrale Fragen zu Elternschaft und Familie. Mit mitreißenden, komischen und nachdenklichen Erzählungen thematisieren Anke Stelling, Daniela Dröscher, Sara Stridsberg und Ingvild H. Rishøi die Herausforderungen und Freuden in den Beziehungen zwischen Eltern und Kindern.