The European Literature Network has been celebrating Nordic fiction lately. I’ve contributed a review of I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the Swedish horror writer known for Let the Right One In. This new novel concerns the occupants of four caravans who find themselves transported to a strange empty space, where their characters will be pressured until the flaws rise to the surface. The translation is by Marlaine Delargy.
You can find my review here, but do spend some time looking around, because there’s a lot to see. You can also download The Nordic Riveter, a 100-page PDF magazine collecting the new material.
Book details
I Am Behind You (2014) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, tr. Marlaine Delargy (2016), riverrun, 464 pages, hardback (review copy).
6th November 2017 at 9:14 pm
Nice! Sounds like a bizarre and interesting book, David 🙂
19th November 2017 at 7:43 pm
“Bizarre and interesting”… Yep, that covers it, Andrew!