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NORSTEDTS AGENCY autumn 2020 autumn Awarded the Swedish Government’s Export Prize for Cultural Trades 2019 1 Foto: Kajsa Göransson Foto: Norstedts Agency: Autumn 2020 Fiction Days and Days and Days Tone Schunnesson ��5 Cancelled Trip to Sabarmati Majgull Axelsson ��7 Monkey in the Middle Stephan Mendel-Enk��9 An Unwanted Christmas Present Sara Molin ��11 Halleholm: Lovisa’s Choice Ruth Kvarnström-Jones ��13 Double Portrait Agneta Pleijel ��15 Your Hands Were Full of Life Suad Ali ��17 Troubled Water Maria Broberg ��19 Rolf Malin Lindroth ��21 Caesaria Hanna Nordenhök ��23 Magic Love Pixie Sofia Stenström ��25 Crime Fiction & Thrillers Rekke #1 David Lagercrantz ��29 Master of Dolls Lena Karlin & Åsa Schwarz ��31 A Grain of Truth Christian Unge ��33 Marviken Accounting Department Lars Wilderäng ��35 Darkman Anna Bågstam ��37 Norstedts Agency houses authors and their works in the Linda Altrov Berg General Non-fiction line of fiction, general non-fiction and illustrated non-fiction� Rights Director Göran Everdahl & Pär Naroskin ��41 Our aim is to make international publishers aware of the linda�altrovberg@norstedts�se Smile: A Field Guide best that Swedish publishing has to offer� We dare to lift new It’s Not All About You Niels Overgaard ��43 literary voices at the same time as we uphold the rights of Catherine Mörk Sirdolaččat Elin Anna Labba ��45 the established ones� Every year our list reflects that of Nor- Rights Manager Olfactory Indulgence Jenny Lantz ��47 stedts Publishing House by selecting the very best from it� catherine�mork@norstedts�se For more information about our books Sofia Odsberg www�norstedtsagency�se Rights Manager Illustrated Non-fiction www�facebook�com/norstedtsagency sofia �odsberg@norstedts�se Winter at Wood's Sofia Wood ��51 To sign up for Norstedts Agency’s newsletter Chez Wood Sofia Wood ��53 www�norstedtsagency�se/newsletter Zero Waste in the Kitchen Karin Bohlin ��55 Green Asian Cuisine Rain Lundström ��57 Cover photo © Märta Thisner Fiction Bibbs is forced to make extreme decisions, whe- Tone Schunnesson’s new novel following Trip Reports re the lies ultimately become the sole thing with (2016), is a study of success and destruction, depen- any ounce of truth. dence and betrayal, celebrity and anonymity. Foto: Märta Thisner Märta Foto: LITERARY Days and Days and Days From the sample translation When I walked into my medium’s office, the about such strength. summer after my first reality TV show was a hit, she glanced at me and said that I looked diffe- My time with Marite changed me, but I stopped rent. “Skinny?” I asked hopefully, and Marite visiting her in Årsta after she said that I’d lost replied: “No, established.” For three years I’d myself in the sauce and because she was sinking transferred her ten large every twelve weeks for all of her income, savings too, into building an unlimited access to her services in person or app no one would pay for. The app let you shoot on the phone, if I called after four. “You’ve lost slow motion videos. Marite wore an amber Tone Schunnesson (b. 1988) is a yourself in the sauce,” was one of the last things necklace, and when she told me about the idea former student of the esteemed she said to me, years later, when the knuckles on I didn’t want to hurt her feelings, so I didn’t Biskops Arnö Writing School. She is a my right hand were raw from having punched mention that everyone could already do this. regular contributor to Aftonbladet's the door to our building on Slip Street. Baby Everyone but Marite, with her burner phone Arts & Culture pages. was supposed to come with me to some whisky and solo fiftieth birthday celebration in Peru. event when out of nowhere he’d decided that After launching the app she started calling me Her debut novel Trip Reports (2016) it was ridiculous. The static started one street more often than I was calling her, and with was hailed by the critics as delightfully down from our apartment when the homeless mounting desperation. She owed the team in rebellious, hilarious and hard-boiled. woman on Reimersholme Island approached Poland a mint, and instead of paying her debt It was also a big commercial success, us like a wraith. “Could you spare a cigarette?” she kept giving them more work each week. It earning Schunnesson a reputation as she asked. I clutched the pack in my fist and was adding up. “Bibbs,” she said when she called an author to watch. gave her my back. “I can pay,” she said. Okay, hoping to sell me on more psychic hours, “The- so that’ll be two hundred, then, I said, avoiding re’s no such thing as investing too much in your eye contact, eager to continue the fight—the health.” Wait, how did you find those people in fight that was the only thing that could get my Poland, I wanted to know, and she told me that Baby to stay. Baby said, for Christ’s sake, Bibbs. she’d typed into a box that had popped up while “Give her a cigarette,” and without thinking I she was googling. Got it, I said, but I was out of turned around and threw the pack in her face. money. Maybe you could promote the app? she’d Baby looked at me and said you crazy bitch. The ask more than once during each phone call. I cigarettes tumbled out and rolled across the wet didn’t want to promote the app. The app would Days and Days and Days asphalt. It was the last day of the year that the link me with failure in a far too obvious way. Dagarna, dagarna, dagarna trees would still have their leaves, and in but a few hours the barren months would begin their My visits to Marite were something I’d afforded Tone Schunnesson reign. Baby entered the code and when the buil- myself in a year when the money was basically ding door slammed shut on me, with Baby on rolling in on its own. But my lucky streak ran Bibbs is just about to turn thirty-nine. At the Her boyfriend Baby has always provided stabili- the other side, I whacked it. It took a moment out, and Marite became an expense among same time there are those who are turning ty and when he dumps her out of the blue, she before my hand started bleeding, slowly, others once she started seeing me with a clarity twenty-six or nineteen. Even though Bibbs becomes devastated. When he walks out, she is as though the wound were hesitating. Got a that I could live without. I stopped taking all lacks talent, she has been famous for a while, also faced with an ultimatum: if she wants to light?, the woman asked, and I rooted around of her calls and stopped calling without say- but the good life is beginning to slip through keep her flat she must pay 100 000 SEK within in my bag, knuckles burning. I thought I had ing why. No way could I tell her that I’d been her fingers. And there seems to be a neveren- the next week. She no longer has access to that punched the door out of rage, but really it was shooting slow motion videos for years and that ding flow of unexpected expenditures. Like the kind of money – an amount that would have an appeal to return to myself. Yes,

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