About Sweden

The Girl in the Spider?s Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her a...

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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rosetinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who the...

Winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award, a novel about an otherwise sensible woman's descent into the obsession and delusion of unrequited love.Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks and she acts according to her principles.Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist H...

A definitive new history of the Vikings The Viking Age between 750 and 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. For a millennium, though, their history has largely been filtered through the writi...

Set in 1981, Let Me In is the horrific tale of Oskar and Eli. It begins with the grisly discovery of the body of a teenage boy, emptied of blood. Twelveyearold Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last revenge for all the bad things the bullies at school do to him, day after day. While Oskar is fascinated by the murder, it ...

Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of findesiècle 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...

Veronika 32, a writer whose boyfriend just drowned in New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village next door to recluse Astrid 81. They share walks, meals, wine, and dangerous memories. Includes 11 page reader's guide for literature teachers and students....

Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopled by a visiting African priest, a witch in the heart of the forest, cousins from Missouri, an old Nazi, a beautiful girl with a black Volvo, silent men and tough women, a championbicyclist music teacher with a thumb in the middle of his hand?and, no...

One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and bestloved novel, and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo to stardom. Set in 1820s Sweden, it tells the story of a def...

"An uplifting family saga . . . [Marianne] Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex . . . chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and themselves. . . . Its message of reconciliation is transcendent."PeopleSweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three gener...

Trace your Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish ancestors! This convenient guide will help you discover your Northern European family history while optimizing your research time.Highlights include: Strategies for identifying immigrant Scandinavian ancestors, plus how to trace them back to Europe from North America Methods for locating Swedish genealogy...

A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter ne...

Your journey starts here. Featuring DK's muchloved maps and illustrations, walks and information, plus all new, fullcolour photography, this 100% updated guide to Sweden brings you the best of this spectacular country in a brandnew, lightweight format.What's inside fullcolour photography, handdrawn illustrations, and maps throughout easyto...

Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20thcentury writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the paper...

A summer evening in 1860 a young man named Henning walks into the city he has dreamed of. Times are changing, industries are forming and new possibilites are opening up.The narrative follows a group of workingclass people on Södermalm in Stockholm between 1860 and 1880.This is the first book in Fogelstrom's fivevolume Stockholm Series, which brok...

Tommy and Annika have a new neighbor: redhaired, frecklefaced Pippi Longstocking, who has upsidedown braids and no parents to tell her what to do. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus, and more!"A rollicking story." The Horn Book...

In the busy house of the Svennson family, everyone is getting ready for the Swedish holiday of Lucia Day, December 13. The book tells the story of Santa Lucia through the eyes of three children in modernday Sweden. It describes their giddy activities, brought to life in colorful, fullpage illustrations, and also provides sheet music, recipes, and...

This fully revised third edition of Bradt's West Sweden including Gothenburg remains the most comprehensive and only standalone guidebook to this enchanting region. In the first dedicated guidebook, Bradt's West Sweden including Gothenburg reveals the staggering variety of the area's experiences, including a chapter on Gothenburg and a section ...