Kerstin Ekman Livres

The Spring focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, during the interwar years.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

Under the Snow opens with a phone call from an outlying village to police constable Torsson, and the news is of a mah jong party turned sour. A brawl broke out and a man named Matti was accidentally killed. When he questions the villagers, Torsson notices some minor discrepancies in their stories, but writes them off as unimportant. It is not until a few months later that he is forced to reopen the case: David, an eccentric artist and old friend of Matti, has arrived in town for a visit with no knowledge of the death. David has an uneasy feeling about the whole affair, and when he finds Anna Ryd, the town's beautiful English teacher, running away with a bag containing a noose with human hairs on it, he makes it his business to find out what happened. Gradually the facts of the case come to light and dark deeds which were covered up in the snow and darkness of winter are finally brought to light under the relentless summer sun.

In der rauen Einsamkeit der schwedischen Natur wird ein Hundewelpe von seiner Mutter und seinem Herrchen getrennt. Auf sich gestellt beginnt er, gegen die Stille und den Hunger um sein Überleben zu kämpfen.

Im menschenleeren Norden Schwedens lange vor unserer Zeit herrscht Krieg zwischen den Völkern der Wölfe und der Bären. Skymt, ein Wesen des Waldes, schließt sich dem Wolfsvolk an. Doch dann verliebt er sich in Sjorhpa, eine Frau des Bärenvolks. Ihr erstes gemeinsames Kind wird geraubt, noch ehe sie ihm einen Namen geben können. Und so beginnt eine lange Zeit der Suche …. In ihrer klaren, eindringlichen Sprache erzählt Kerstin Ekman vom uralten Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. 'Dieses Buch ist wie eine geheime Kammer, in der man Weisheit, Erfahrungen und Gedanken aufbewahrt.' Svenska Dagbladet

En dag læser den kendte forfatter Lillemor Troj et manuskript til en roman om hendes eget liv. Det er skrevet af en kvinde hun kender godt. De har aldrig været venner, men har igennem årene været dybt afhængige af hinanden