The Legend of the Plague King,
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Lars Andersson, 60 pages, R125
A Winter in Stockholm,
Agneta Pleijel, 121 pages, R150
Both translated by Joan Tate
Manolis' Moped,
Jan Henrik Swahn,
72 pages, R125
Translated by the author
Pratilipi Books
Novels by three of Sweden's leading writers, in English translation, from the newly established imprint of the Hindi-English literary magazine, Pratilipi. Andersson's story is set in 1357, seven years after the Great Plague came to Sweden; Pleijel's novel unfolds under the shadow of the Balkan wars of the 1990s; and Swahn plays with the idea of doubles in this novel set in a quaint Greek village.
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