(4) YA Translated by Tara Chace. Seventeen-year-old Jonatan, incapacitated by a mysterious accident, is the voiceless focal point of this flashback narrative as his father, mother, and girlfriend gather in his hospital room to tell their versions of his past. The women's short accounts are eclipsed by the father's rambling reminiscences, which makes the novel drag despite its smooth translation and each character's raw sincerity.

Reviewer: Lauren Maggio

(2) YA Translated by Tara Chace. Three disparate lives converge in this pensive, enigmatic Swedish import. Anon is a twelve-year-old loner. Zarah is a beautiful seventeen-year-old caught up in a (graphically described) sexual relationship. Nils is a twenty-year-old college student searching for the meaning of life and death. This sophisticated novel hooks readers in with its intriguing portrayal of how individuals can affect one another's destiny.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2005

(1) YA Translated by Tara Chace. Like its emotionally fragile main character, this affecting, uniquely constructed Swedish novel about first love--and first heartbreak--puts up a pretense of detachment. The teenage narrator mentally replays details of his recent romance as if they were movie scenes. The relationship unfolds through a chain of short, cinematic chapters that flow smoothly back and forth between the giddy, head-over-heels phase of the near-past to the anguish of the present.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2004