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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

"A deeply moving book." —LEILA SLIMANI *** "A work of rare grace and importance."— THE GUARDIAN In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz...

Marghanita Laski’s novel Little Boy Lost is as enthralling as it is heart-wrenching. A man grapples with questions of emotional responsibility, fatherhood, and memory. Laski describes a much-changed France, struggling to rebuild its morale after the ruin caused by wartime bombing and...

Seventeen-year-old Brynhild is in a fever—she can't quiet the screaming world inside her. When an intense affair ends brutally, she flees Norway for America at the end of the nineteenth century in search of a new life. Changing her name first to Bella, later to Belle, she is driven from any potential refuge by an unbearable tension that won’t let her keep still. As Belle seeks release in a series of men, her yearning for an all-consuming love erupts into violence. 

Johan Dahlberg - en ung man med högskoleexamen och fast anställning har blivit dömd till ett flerårigt fängelsestraff. Boken skildrar livet på en sluten anstalt, kontrasten mot de övriga intagna och hur han tar sig upp ur en djup psykisk svacka genom att han får möjlighet att löpträna i fängelset. Träningen blir mer och mer omfattande och vi får ta del av den spännande skildringen av de svårigheter han möter när han försöker bevisa att han kan bli riktigt bra på någonting.

En älskad komiker med självtvivel och jävlar anamma Sett i backspegeln har Ann Westin gjort en klassresa. Men vägen till framgång har varit lång, ända från arbetarkvarteren på Hisingen i Göteborg i en familj med fyra barn. Stämningen därhemma präglades av kärlek och humor men också av pappans drickande, ständigt dålig ekonomi och mammans frustration och oro.