Tag: Sweden

Skuggfärd by Magnus Engström My rating: 3 of 5 stars Magnus Engström made his debut in 2011 with the graphic novel Luftspår (Air Track), an experimental detective story with existential dimensions. Skuggfärd (Shadow Road) is a kind of sequel, in the sense that it once again contains a detective/thriller story used as a tool to…

Jamilti and Other Stories by Rutu Modan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a great collection of early stories by Rutu Modan. I read most of them in the anthologies that her collective Actus Tragicus put out in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but rereading them in one go puts them all…

Var ska jag lägga mitt huvud? by Rakhsha Razani My rating: 3 of 5 stars A poignant autobiographical tale of escaping from your home country and trying to build a new reality in another part of the world altogether. The main character moves from Iran to England to study in the 1970s, but moves back…