Bøker av Kerstin Ekman

Startling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications - a thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power. the hurried flight of a sinister stranger: terrible events long buried in Annie Raft's memory - until she sees her daughter in the arms of the man she believes responsible for the killings...

Året er 1916 da jordmoren Hillevi Klarin kommer til fjellbyen Svartvattnet i Jämtland. Hun møter en hard verden preget av fattigdom og uvitenhet. Hillevi forblir en fremmed og er ensom i sitt arbeid. Bokens annen hovedperson er gutten Elis, som rømmer hjemmefra og til Norge og simulerer hukommelsestap for å skape seg et nytt liv som kunstner. Det er Hillevis fosterdatter, Kristin, som er fortellingens beretter, en gammel kvinne som ser tilbake på nesten et helt århundre. Hun er lenken mellom levende og døde, og det er hun som kan høre vannet i bekken tale. Boken er den første i trilogien Vargskinnet.

The Spring focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, during the interwar years.

I begynnelsen av 1970-årene skjer et dobbeltmord i ei bygd i Nord-Sverige. En ung kvinne får et glimt av en mann som kan være morderen. Atten år senere ser hun ham igjen, og fortiden vender tilbake. Det uoppklarte drapet har virket sterkt inn på bygda. Først nå begynner de å ane sannheten.

The final volume in Ekman's quartet of novels depicting life in a Swedish railway town. Ann-Marie searches for identity and meaning in a modern, secularized society. The suggestion that lives attain meaning and even a kind of immortality by being remembered and narrated is central to the book.

This is a translation of the author's tetralogy, published between 1974 and 1983, that traces the growth and development of a railroad town by portaying working-class women and children, rather than society's movers and shakers.

The Angel House is the third in the remarkable series of free-standing novels that cemented Kerstin Ekman's reputation in her native Sweden during the 1970s.

In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the safe haven of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle for survival in the wild. Suddenly, he must find food and a safe place to sleep, and outwit his competitor, the fox. The puppy becomes wild himself, trusting no human and furiously fighting the hunting dogs that enter his domain. But one man is intrigued by the now-unruly dog and very slowly begins to gain his trust. Each day he visits the dog, bringing food and awakening memories of his distant domestic past. The lost relationship between man and dog is rebuilt in this sensitive and intelligent story about the true nature of trust and friendship.