Hunter in Huskvarna

Stridsberg's stories explore the strange and mundane with a fairy-tale sensibility, exploring themes of longing, escape, and the search for home. Deborah Bragan-Turner's elegant translation brings Stridsberg's world to life.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 18 January 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Stridsberg has crafted a captivating contemporary fairy tale, infused with a refreshing Scandinavian flair, skillfully translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner. Within these pages, a young woman finds herself captivated by her psychoanalyst's daughter, while a police officer's mistress secretly tends to his dying wife. A boy vanishes from the picturesque Swedish town of Huskvarna, last seen walking alongside a wolf. Stridsberg takes us on a journey from the depths of a dead whale's belly to an abandoned industrial town, and even to a Texas prison, where a young man visits his sister's murderer on death row. With a fairy-tale sensibility that illuminates our world in unique ways, Stridsberg explores both the extraordinary and the ordinary, offering a fresh perspective on the human experience.

Time flows effortlessly through this collection, ebbing, flowing, and rippling beneath the shimmering surface of Stridsberg's prose. These genre-spanning stories are interconnected by a profound sense of longing—a yearning for escape from the confines of a prescribed life, a longing for a past that holds the promise of an undiscovered future, and a deep desire for a place or a person that feels like home.

Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner, Stridsberg's tales invite readers to embark on a captivating journey through the complexities of human emotions and relationships. With her meticulous translation, Bragan-Turner has preserved the essence of Stridsberg's writing, allowing it to resonate with English-speaking audiences in a way that honors the original artistry and magic of the source material.

Weight: 194g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529423266