We are thrilled to announce that two of our Swedish bestsellers Viveca Sten and Simona Ahrnstedt are currently on German Börsenblatt’s bestseller chart. Although they write in very different genres these two talented women have captured the readers’ hearts with their amazing characters and chilling dramas.
Between 1941 & 1945 the Am Spieglgrund clinic in Vienna, ostensibly a children’s home for the wayward and chronically ill, was actually a Nazi killing ground, advancing ideals of so-called racial purity through a brutal euthanasia programme. Prodigiously researched and told from the perspectives of a ten-year-old inmate and a nurse, this is a difficult, necessary read that lays bare the horrors of these unspeakable crimes, and charts subsequent attempts to bring to justice som, though not at all, of the perpetrators. A powerful, harrowing testament to the nameless victims of evil.
Simon Humphreys, Daily Mail
Girls Lost, the film based on Jessica Schiefauer‘s amazing novel The Boys, is a huge festival and awards success. The movie had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, with other festivals including Rome FF, Chicago FF, Gothenburg FF, Rotterdam FF, Budapest FF, Antalya FF, Newfest/New York and more. The film was also recently nominated for the European Film Academy Young Audience Award.
see the trailer here: http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/contemporaryworldcinema/girls-lost
Strong and beautiful words from Sebastian Barry in The Guardian today as he reviews Nordin Agency’s Prize winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg‘s latest novel The Chosen Ones.
Barry writes that:
You don’t so much read Sem-Sandberg as stand in the fiery wind of his prose. He makes his reader strangely complicit in his terrible subjects. He does not offer that tattered lifebelt of “redemption” so often thrown to the modern reader, nor much space to rest your reading eyes; but his books are only merciless because the great swaths of human enterprise they chart are themselves merciless.
He finishes his review by saying:
Some novels are described as dark, in order to alert the reader. But this novel, translated into English by Anna Paterson, is as bright as a cloudless June sky under which, behind walls and doors, we go about our inexplicable human business.
and truer words have near been written.
Last night saw the much-anticipated release of Camilla Sten’s debut novel A New Dawn, a dystopian novel of a world not far from our own. Though young, Camilla has always been writing and it was no surprise to the people closest to her when she finally presented the world with a manuscript to her first novel. The book was promptly acquired by Ordfront förlag in Sweden for its suspenseful and stylish retelling of a Stockholm where people are judged not on their character but on their origin.
A New Dawn stars Isa who knows how to behave. She knows that you keep your head down and your mouth shut. And you NEVER draw attention to yourself. It might have been otherwise, once, but that doesn’t matter anymore. Isa is class B, and she is well aware of the rules.
At night, though, things are different. At night Isa and her friends wage a covert revolution. By hacking party blogs and spreading fliers with illegal anti-government propaganda they try to make their voices heard. Things suddenly come to an unexpected head when an anonymous blogger claims to have information that could overthrow the government. With the police hot on their heals Isa and her friends will have to decide, once and for all, how much they are willing to sacrifice for freedom.
Although Camilla likes to say that her novel accidentally ended up being about politics that is not quite true. A self-proclaimed feminist from a very young age politics and debate has always come easily to our author who also writes insightful articles on the current political climate for several different newspapers including Expressen and Aftonbladet.
We expect to see many great things from this talented writer.