The new novel Bygdedjuret of Swedish author Sven Olov Karlsson is now published by Natur och Kultur.
The village in Västmanland with its special mentality, a kind of grumpy envy, is the setting for this swinging, harsh and funny autofictional novel about an artist's life.
Do not be afraid. It's a sunshine story.
That's how the narrator Sven Olov begins this novel about his life. Do we believe him?
In his youth he sometimes had unexplained blackouts. Nowadays, in the middle of his life, they happen all the time, and he covers them up with comic book stickers and directions, excuses and white lies. More and more often he has to guess where he has been or where he is going. He is there, and not there. Owning books he doesn't remember writing, meeting a stranger on the underground who claims to be an old friend; life is starting to become as eerily vague as that ancient rumour of a secret treasure hidden in his childhood village.
Read one of many reviews about the book at Göteborgs-Posten, by Oscar Westerholm
Sven Olov Karlsson
Järna, 2023
All the portraits of Sven Olov Karlsson are available at the Opale Agency.
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