To Cook a Bear: Winner of the Petrona Award 2021

ISBN-13: 9780857058966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 464 str.

Mikael Niemi

Opis

A riveting historical murder mystery set in Sweden's far north - to delight fans of The Name of the Rose

Recenzje

So much to relish here . . . the plot is grippling, there's a beautifully handled thread on reading and writing, and the writing is just lovely! Diane Setterfield

O autorze

Mikael Niemi was born in 1959 and grew up in Pajala in the northernmost part of Sweden, near the Finnish border, where he still lives. Before the publication of To Cook A Bear, his breakthrough novel was Popular Music From Vittula (2000), selling more than one million copies. It won the Swedish August Prize and has been translated into more than thirty languages. To Cook A Bear has now been sold for translation to fifteen territories. Deborah Bragan-Turner is a translator of Swedish literature, and a former bookseller and academic librarian. She studied Scandinavian Languages at University College, London, and her translations include works by Per Olov Enquist and Sara Stridsberg.