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I See All That You Do
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Publisher: Europa Editions
Language: English
From the internationally bestselling author of The Colony--a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and an NPR and Booklist Best book of the Year--comes a collection of eight stories that confirms Annika Norlin as Sweden's most distinctive contemporary literary voice.
In I See All That You Do, Norlin depicts the lives of people who are suspended mid-life or mid-way, who are often at odds with the gravitational pull of their own stories and personal histories as they try to find their way. Set largely in the small towns and countryside of Norrland, in Sweden's deep north, among people the media and writers often ignore, this is a stunning, often darkly funny tableau about that which lies on the oft-tarnished surface and the shimmering depths below.
A woman goes out for a walk carrying with her an unspeakable grief. She finds, to her surprise, that she cannot stop walking. Along the way she talks to café owners, hotel proprietors, and fellow travelers--her destination changes, and still she walks. A song takes shape inside her--five stanzas that make the ground beneath her feet feel lighter. Another woman has built a successful business out of flattering strangers' insecurities--she is The Validator. Until she falls for the one man who apparently has none, uncovering her own hunger to be seen. Elsewhere, a doomed punk band rehearses in the void, a cult film haunts the banks of the Pite River... Norlin's imagination, her precision, and sensitivity is unmatched.
I See All That You Do was an instant bestseller in Sweden and was adapted for the stage, playing to sold-out audiences. Together, these eight stories reveal a writer of remarkable empathy and originality, attuned to the hidden currents running beneath ordinary lives.
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