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"City in the World," the fifth and last book of Per Anders Fogelstrom's famed Stockholm Series, covers the years from 1945 through 1968. The author depicts the progress of the Swedish social experiment during this period as Swedish society struggles to find peaceful solutions to many challenges. As ever, Fogelstrom displays great sympathy and insight into characters we know well by now, immersed in the world of their time, a time in which Stockholm has become a city in the world."

Per Anders Fogelstrom's Stockholm Series is a quintet of novels about the intertwined stories of a city and of a family. The research behind and within Fogelstrom's series is prodigiously detailed: he gives us meticulous descriptions of landscapes, weather, rooms, streets, factories, cafes, bars, and emerging landmarks; he knows and understands the historical events, issues, politics of the period, which of them were remote from the working classes, and which were immediate. He tells his stories without contrivance; when there are life-changing events, they erupt into a context of daily life...