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“... by evil dictators with savage police forces. This is a strong ship-of-fools story, translated by Paul BrittenAustin into good English which may have made Malte Moritz a touch more naively self-parodic than Sven Delblanc intended. From Canada comes a beautifully contrived set of parodies of traditional English ghost ...”

“... literary landscape. But perhaps the requisite mixture of courtesy and curiosity no longer exists? Paul Binding’s Babel Guide to Scandinavian Fiction in Translation describes Söderberg as ‘one of the very greatest Swedish writers, disgracefully little known in the English-speaking world’. The second part of the sentence seems almost to follow from the ...”