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Stay!
by Pija Lindenbaum
Spring 2013, 135 pages
Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
One of Sweden’s best-selling and prize-awarded
children’s fiction authors makes her novel debut!
Stay!
“My place is over there, to the right. Now, I’m
crossing the room. At first the sharp sound
against the stone floor. The steps fall silent on
the green rug. Something is chafing in the left
shoe.”
She is an ordinary woman with an office job
and a husband and a grown-up child. But something
is off. Suddenly she finds herself in
a state where everything feels foreign to her.
Everyday meetings and situations become
weird and intrusive. So one day she leaves her
home and her work and barricades herself in
a borrowed flat where she cuts off the outside
world. Throws away her mobile phone
and her computer. And gets a dog.
Now it’s just her and the dog.
The much-loved children’s book creator Pija
Lindenbaum has finally made her debut as a
novelist with a suggestive short novel about
a middle-aged woman on the verge of a nervous
breakdown. Lindenbaum’s precise prose
in short scenes screws itself in and down
into a story with both comical and gripping
blackness.
Pija Lindenbaum graduated from the Stockholm
College of Arts, Crafts and Design in
1979 and has since then worked as an artist,
designer and author. She has created some
of the most-loved Swedish picture books of
the recent years, among them: Else-Marie och
småpapporna/Else-Marie and the Seven Little
Daddies; and Gittan och gråvargarna/Bridget
and the Grey Wolves. Lindenbaum’s books
are appreciated abroad as well. A number of
them have been translated into English, Japanese,
German, French and Dutch, among
other languages.
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