Bøker av Sara Stridsberg

A beautiful meditation on going to the park to play¿which extends into a reflection on life itself¿from Booker-longlisted Sara Stridsberg and the inimitable Beatrice Alemagna.

A collection of lyrical, genre-spanning short stories that reveal the magic and the tragedy of the mundane, from the International Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Faculty of Dreams.

A fever dream of a novel-strangely funny, entirely unconventional-Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie SolanasIn April 1988, Valerie Solanas-the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol-was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away. A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light.

The international star Sara Stridsberg returns with The Antarctica of Love, an unnamed woman's tale of her murder, her brief life, and the world that moves on after she left itThey say you die three times. The first time for me was when my heart stopped beating beneath his hands by the lake, and the second was when what was left of me was lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Bromma Church. The third time will be the last time my name is spoken on earth.She was a neglected child, an unreliable mother, a sex worker, a drug user-and then, like so many, a nameless victim of a violent crime. But first she was a human being, a full, complicated person, and she insists that we know her fully as she tells her story from beyond the grave. We witness her short life, the harrowing murder that ended it, and her grief over the loved ones she has left behind. We see her parents struggle with guilt and loss. We watch her children grow up in adopted families and patch together imperfect lives. We feel her dreams, fears, and passions. And still we will never know her name.A heartrending novel of life after death, Sara Stridsberg's The Antarctica of Love is an unflinching testament of a woman on the margins, a tale of family lost and found, a report of a murder in the voice of the victim, and a story that brims with unexpected tenderness and hope.

Sara Stridsbergs novellesamling, Hunter i Huskvarna, spenner over et vidt spekter. Stridsbergs karakteristiske fortellerklo er helt tydelig i alle de ti novellene, enten vi er sammen med fortellerens venn Hunter der de en stund vokser opp sammen i Huskvarna blant fabrikker, gudshus og hunder, i baksetet i bilen mens far kjører gjennom natten, inne i den utstilte blåhvalkroppen i Hvalene, eller under vann sammen med den mystiske søsteren i Vi var rovdyr. Vi møter spesielle, snille, vakre, stygge mennesker om hverandre, det er som om intet menneskelig er ukjent for Sara Stridsberg. Fortellingene i Hunter i Huskvarna utspiller seg i trange svenske landskap og ute i verden: mellom barndom og levde liv, mellom sorg og livsgnist, mellom rå virkelighet og eventyr. Skjebner som til sammen skaper en svimlende mytologi om kjærlighet og overlevelse.

The award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father's absence. The book tackles a difficult subject with great tenderness, validating a child's experience of a parent suffering from depression. "This poignant, gentle book . . . will be immensely helpful to anyone caring for the child of someone with major depression. It fills an important gap in literature for young children."-Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon (winner of the National Book Award) and Far From the TreeZoe's dad isn't home. She still sees him in photographs, laughing and playing tennis, but for now she can only visit him in a building where everyone looks sad and the walls are an ugly pink color. Some days Zoe's dad is too sad to see her, but she goes to the hospital anyway. While waiting she meets Sabina who invites her to swim across the world. Zoe's not sure it's possible, but Sabina tells her, "A girl can do everything she wants." Even though Sabina sometimes dives deep into her own thoughts, the two of them swim around the world many times that summer, until eventually Zoe's dad is ready to come home. The Summer of Diving is a book full of imagination and hope with a tender child's-eye understanding of the world. Stridsberg's story and Lundberg's lush and colorful paintings reflect and validate a child's feelings of loss and longing for closeness when a parent's joy for living temporarily fades.

En kort stund har hun vært i verden med dens begjær, lengsel og frykt. Helt til en ukjent velger å ta livet hennes. Men barna finnes, de som en gang var hennes, Valle og Solveig, de som ble tatt hånd om av myndighetene og plassert et sted på Sverigekartet. Foreldrene hennes, Raksha og Ivan, finnes fortsatt, der de flakker gjennom Stockholm i de dødes tapte verden. Og dødsøyeblikket, det tar aldri slutt.

Romanen "Beckomberga - ode til min familie" er Sara Stridsbergs mest personlige bok. Det er en historie om drømmen om å holde noen tilbake i lyset som egentlig aldri har ønsket å være der, om redselen og lengselen etter å falle. Når Jimmie Darling kommer til Beckomberga mentalsykehus, begynner datteren Jackie å tilbringe stadig mer tid der. Og når moren reiser til Svartehavet, blir sykehuset hele hennes verden. Der er legen Edvard Winterson som hver natt tar med seg Jim og noen utvalgte pasienter til sine store fester ved Lill-Jansplan, der er Inger Vogel som beveger seg på grensen mellom orden og ødeleggelse, og Sabina med sine perler og sin sorg. Der er også Paul og kjærligheten, den virkelige galskapen.

Boken er en litterær fantasi som tar utgangspunktet i den døde amerikanske forfatteren Valerie Solana, kjent for sitt manifest Scum og for å ha prøvd å drepe Andy Warhol.

Romanen er delt inn i fire historier om tre kvinner. Den ene historien handler om den morløse Lo som kjører med sin far gjennom brennende skoger, mens faren plukker opp prostituerte. Den andre kvinnen er Dolores Haze, Nabokovs Lolita, som føder et dødfødt pikebarn. Den tredje er en kvinne som har forlatt mann og barn og drar ensom ut på landeveien. Den fjerde historien er om apehunnen i Jardin des Plantes som trenes av en vitenskapsmann.

Sara Stridsbergs skuespill "Medealand" tar utgangspunkt i Euripedes' drama om Medea (oppført i 431). Medea, prinsessen fra et fjernt barbarland hjelper Jason med å erobre det gylne skinnet og redder ham fra en sikker død. Hun følger ham tilbake til Hellas og blir hans hustru. De får to sønner, men Jason ønsker å gifte seg med Kreusa, datter til kongen i byen. Medea er fra seg av sjalusi, fortvilelse, hevntørst og hat. "Medealand" er en sterk historie om kjærlighet, svik og morskap og eksil. Boken har etterord av Steve Sem-Sandberg.

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden's most exciting literary talents