The Spring focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, during the interwar years.
Kerstin Ekman Books
August 27, 1933
Kerstin Ekman is a Swedish novelist renowned for her early success in detective fiction, which later evolved into a profound exploration of psychological and social themes. Her works are characterized by a keen insight into the human psyche and societal dynamics. Ekman masterfully blends intricate plots with vivid atmospheric detail and compelling character motivations. Her distinctive literary style is celebrated for its complexity and its power to draw readers into richly constructed narratives.
The forest of hours
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Skord is a magical being who is neither man nor animal. This novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he begins to gradually to understand human civilisation and to learn their language.
This novel, written in 1974 and now published for the first time in English, is the first volume of a tetralogy which follows a Swedish community through a hundred years of recent history to the present day.
Blackwater
- 444 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Startling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications - a thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power. the hurried flight of a sinister stranger: terrible events long buried in Annie Raft's memory - until she sees her daughter in the arms of the man she believes responsible for the killings...
The Dog
- 133 pages
- 5 hours of reading
A beautiful fable exploring the unique bond between man and dog
A crime novel about the murder of two people in Lapland during the winter.
The Angel House is the third in the remarkable series of free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in her native Sweden during the 1970s.
Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical. As an interview with Swedish TV 1 in 1993-1994, Kerstin Ekman read aloud Childhood. With original photographs kindly provided by the author.
City of Light is published here for the first time in English in a translation by Linda Schenck, and is a fitting culmination to her many years of work on the Women and the City series. číst celé
Stadt aus Licht
- 669 pages
- 24 hours of reading
Unabh. Forts. von: Das Engelhaus. - Das fesselnde Porträt einer ungewöhnlichen Schwedin unserer Tage, die ihren eigenen Weg geht.
