Lars Gustafsson

Een filosofieprofessor maakt een tijdreis door het Zweden van zijn jeugd in de jaren vijftig van de 20e eeuw.

'Stories of Happy People' is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair.

Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist have written a very personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the far South their journey leads them all the way up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to Laponian, a UNESCO World heritage site. But it is the idyllic fjord in Bohuslan, in the Vastmanland region, as well as Malar Lake and Stockholm that they call home. Alive with their many, varied interests and full of entertaining suggestions for excursions - from journeys across the forests and moors to collect berries and mushrooms, taking in the odd elk or wolf along the way, to visiting Strindberg and the grave of Kurt Tucholsky, A Midsummer Night's Sun is a knowledgeable, loving and poetic and a must have for all the fans of Sweden.

A visiting professor of Swedish named Lars Gustafsson finds himself involved in "a sudden series of bizarre events" in Austin, Texas, in 1974.

Bernard Foy of the first part of the novel is a young American rabbi caught up in deadly international espionage. Part two is a portrait of the not so tranquil autumn years of an eighty-three-year-old Bernard Foy, poet and member of the Swedish Academy. The Third Bernard Foy is a brilliant, homicidal juvenile delinquent in today's Sweden.