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Fiction<br />
Systrar & bröder<br />
Sisters & Brothers<br />
by Maria Sveland<br />
September 2013, 353 pages<br />
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus<br />
Option publishers:<br />
KiWi, Germany • Modtryk, Denmark<br />
Czarna Owca, Poland<br />
With an impertinent eye for details, Maria Sveland<br />
continues to examine the dysfuntional nuclear<br />
family falling apart.<br />
Sisters & Brothers<br />
Yes, that’s how it was. Göran was their only<br />
father. The one they happened to get. They would<br />
just have to deal with that as best they could.<br />
Surviving childhood isn’t easy. Using different<br />
strategies, neuroses and memories, the<br />
three siblings in Maria Sveland’s new novel<br />
struggle to get by. To forgive, reconcile and<br />
repress. Their childhood; father Göran’s<br />
monster-snoring in the row house at night,<br />
little brother Per’s night terrors, Hedda’s<br />
sensitivity to guardian angels and zombie demons,<br />
Nora’s big-sister need to be good, their<br />
mother Anita’s death. And Nora’s words:<br />
Everything will be alright. Words that both<br />
bother and reassure Hedda.<br />
Nora’s grandiose attitude toward love and<br />
family life keeps getting in the way of real<br />
happiness. She wishes she could be happier<br />
with Henrik and the children. Instead she<br />
gets annoyed with his preoccupation with<br />
law and tacos. Hedda attends the University<br />
College of Arts, Crafts and Design where she<br />
exclusively sculpts handguns, using different<br />
materials and different colors. But mostly<br />
she just wants to sleep. Little brother Per has<br />
problems with intimacy but is mostly concerned<br />
about his receding hairline which he<br />
films with his cell phone every night. During<br />
the day he sells massage, marijuana and ambient<br />
music for fifteen hundred kronor an<br />
hour. His clients are middle-aged women.<br />
Their dead mother Anita hovers over them<br />
like a lost soul and their father Göran disappears<br />
under mysterious circumstances<br />
during a trip to Transylvania.<br />
Nora, Hedda and Per are grownups who keep<br />
licking their childhood wounds. In her new<br />
novel Systrar & bröder Maria Sveland continues<br />
examining the nuclear family and its<br />
neuroses.<br />
Review date: October 14, 2013<br />
continued ><br />
norstedts agency<br />
www.norstedtsagency.se<br />
linda.altrovberg@norstedts.se<br />
catherine.mork@norstedts.se<br />
maria.machirant@norstedts.se
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