The 3 best books by the brilliant Per Olov Enquist

writer Per Olov Enquist

The Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist could be considered something like the black sheep of current Swedish literature. More than anything because it is this country that most serves the cause of Nordic noir, that vein exploited by authors such as David Lagercrantz, in the ...

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The Book of Parables, by Olov Enquist

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Who has not lived a forbidden love? Without loving the impossible, the forbidden or even the reprehensible (always in view of others), you can probably never say that you have loved or lived, or both. Olov Enquist makes a more than probable gesture of honesty with himself. ...

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