Bücher von Kerstin Ekman

On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night.Like Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater is a unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are as strikingly compelling as the exotic northern landscape that envelops them.

This is a translation of the author's tetralogy, published between 1974 and 1983, that traces the growth and development of a railroad town by portaying working-class women and children, rather than society's movers and shakers.

The final volume in Ekman's quartet of novels depicting life in a Swedish railway town. Ann-Marie searches for identity and meaning in a modern, secularized society. The suggestion that lives attain meaning and even a kind of immortality by being remembered and narrated is central to the book.

The Spring focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, during the interwar years.

The Angel House is the third in the remarkable series of free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in her native Sweden during the 1970s.

Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical. As an interview with Swedish TV 1 in 1993-1994, Kerstin Ekman read aloud "Childhood". With original photographs kindly provided by the author.