Why is it so impossible to get a relationship to work between two mature single people, driven by an enormous longing and loudly ticking biological clocks? Especially when they are struck by a totally unexpected passion when they first meet.
Kiihkeän ja koskettavan trilogian avaus – Pohjoismainen kirjatapaus! ”Tämän tarinan asiat ovat tapahtuneet. Kaikki on totta. Minä olen yksi selvinneistä. Tämä on minun ja ystävieni tarina.” Syyskuussa 1982 Rasmus astuu junasta Tukholmaan eikä aio palata jouluksi kotiin. Hän on nuori ja kaunis, ja kuin syleilyyn hän heittäytyy Tukholman gay-yhteisöön. Benjamin kiertää ovelta ovelle, hän kertoo Jehovasta ja koputtaa Paulin oveen. Tuon oven takana Benjamin kohtaa Rasmuksen, eikä mikään ole entisensä. Jonas Gardellin ylistetty romaanitrilogia 1980-luvun aids-epidemiasta kertoo, mitä heille tapahtu... continue
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself cont... continue
Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on famous artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and, when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her. From now on Ester's existence is intrinsically linked to this conversation, and the chain of events that unravels will change Ester's life. Arbitrary Conduct is a kind of dark love story, it is a story of total and desperate devotion and about how willingly we betray ourselves in our longing to be loved.