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Two ends of the world

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

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Stockholm in December 2007

‘For a writer, the experience of living in a number of countries is an enormous boon. You can only understand the world if you see it from several sides. My latest book, which came into being in France, unfolds in a special geographic space: Those events which take place in Prague are seen through West European eyes, while what happens in France is seen through the eyes of Prague. It is an encounter of two worlds.’

Milan Kundera

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Karekare in January 2008

Sonat till Miriam

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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The second novel as it will look when it is published by Albert Bonniers Förlag next year.

‘But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing –’
Szymon Laks, from the overture to ‘Music of another world’