{"title":"Kerstin Ekman","description":"Kerstin Ekman is the author of seventeen novels that have been published in Scandinavia and Europe. Blackwater--her first novel published in English--received the Swedish Crime Academy's Award for best crime novel, the August Prize, and the Nordic Counci's Literary Prize. She lives in Valsjobyn, a small village in northern Sweden.","products":[{"product_id":"blackwater-paperback-3","title":"Blackwater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike\u003ci\u003e Gorky Park \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSmilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are as strikingly compelling as the exotic northern landscape that envelops them.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51438240235743,"sku":"9780312152475","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gzQinAa1j69780312152475.webp?v=1790093711"},{"product_id":"the-spring-paperback","title":"The Spring - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKerstin Ekman's novel \u003cem\u003eBlackwater\u003c\/em\u003e took the world by storm in 1993 and has now been translated into over twenty-five languages. But her reputation as one of Sweden's best-known and most successful authors rests just as securely upon the series of four novels she wrote between 1974 and 1983, which are based on the author's childhood home town of Katrineholm some forty miles southwest of Stockholm. The first of these, \u003cem\u003eWitches' Rings\u003c\/em\u003e portrays the final years of the nineteenth century in a small urban community on the cusp of industrialisation. \u003cem\u003eThe Spring\u003c\/em\u003e, which focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, moves the story on from the early twentieth century to the interwar years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Ekman herself, two major socio-psychological studies carried out in Katrineholm indicate 'that this was a community with which its inhabitants were content... I have devoted eleven years of my life to maintaining the exact opposite.' This is accomplished in a narrative of great subtlety and compelling power; once again Kerstin Ekman recreates the past with an authenticity that resonates urgently in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67694724055263,"sku":"9781909408579","price":31.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U28niancFP9781909408579.webp?v=1790581842"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kerstin-ekman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}