Out All Day with His Axe
Lavinia Greenlaw: ‘Osebol’, 18 August 2022
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
by Marit Kapla, translated by Peter Graves.
Allen Lane, 803 pp., £20, November 2021,978 0 241 53520 2 Show More
by Marit Kapla, translated by Peter Graves.
Allen Lane, 803 pp., £20, November 2021,
“... Where is Osebol? Marit Kapla offers no introduction to this oral history of a Swedish village, just a map showing the southern half of the country and a cluster of places along the Klarälven river, which crosses from Norway. Much of the life of the village – education, work, shopping, fun – occurs in these other places ... ”
