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Washington DC: Makten, historien, kulturen
Varje kväll fylls våra skärmar av bilder från USA:s huvudstad, den starkaste stormakten i världshistorien: Vita Huset. Kapitolium. Högsta domstolen. Pampiga byggnader som de flesta svenskar vet namnen på. Beslut som fattas här påverkar människor på hela jordklotet. I denna initierade bok skildrar Maria Bouroncle och Karin Henriksson Washingtons unika utveckling. Från träskmarkerna vid Potomacfloden till dagens globala centrum för politik, utbildning och kultur. Det är en bok om hur Washington har format de krafter som styr världen, men också om människorna som bor här.
272 pages, Paperback
Published September 23, 2025
About the author
Maria Bouroncle
5 books90 followersMARIA BOURONCLE is a Swedish author who has lived in Washington, D.C. since 2002. An economist by profession, she spent more than 25 years in international development before publishing her first book, "It Came to Me on a Whim: The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess", in 2018.
Her historical trilogy about young women in the early 1900s has been translated into several languages, adapted for film, and received awards in Finland, Sweden, and the United States.
The trilogy introduces Ingeborg, Elsa, and Hilja, and explores themes such as women’s mental health care and correctional institutions, emigration to the United States, and the experiences of Finnish war children in Sweden.
"It Came to Me on a Whim" tells the story of Maria’s great-aunt Ingeborg, who killed her three children in 1929. The book is required reading in the course Scandinavian Crime Literature at UCLA.
The independent sequel, "The Girl with a Name Tag: The Story of a Finnish War Child", follows Hilja, a twelve-year-old Finnish girl who arrives in Vesene, a small village in Sweden, in 1944. The book has been used in the Scandinavian Studies Program at the University of Michigan since 2026.
"Chicago Dreams: The Story of a Young Immigrant", the final part of the trilogy, centers on Elsa, who emigrates alone to the United States in 1921 at the age of twenty-three with just twenty-five dollars to her name. The novel received the American Scandinavian Association grant for its contribution to a deeper understanding of Nordic culture.
In 2021 and 2022, Carl Eneroth’s film "The Child Murderess of Vesene", based on "It Came to Me on a Whim", won Best Short Documentary in Budapest, London, Miami, and New Jersey.
In the fall of 2025, Maria released her first nonfiction work, a guidebook to Washington, D.C., co-authored with Swedish journalist Karin Henriksson.
Her historical trilogy about young women in the early 1900s has been translated into several languages, adapted for film, and received awards in Finland, Sweden, and the United States.
The trilogy introduces Ingeborg, Elsa, and Hilja, and explores themes such as women’s mental health care and correctional institutions, emigration to the United States, and the experiences of Finnish war children in Sweden.
"It Came to Me on a Whim" tells the story of Maria’s great-aunt Ingeborg, who killed her three children in 1929. The book is required reading in the course Scandinavian Crime Literature at UCLA.
The independent sequel, "The Girl with a Name Tag: The Story of a Finnish War Child", follows Hilja, a twelve-year-old Finnish girl who arrives in Vesene, a small village in Sweden, in 1944. The book has been used in the Scandinavian Studies Program at the University of Michigan since 2026.
"Chicago Dreams: The Story of a Young Immigrant", the final part of the trilogy, centers on Elsa, who emigrates alone to the United States in 1921 at the age of twenty-three with just twenty-five dollars to her name. The novel received the American Scandinavian Association grant for its contribution to a deeper understanding of Nordic culture.
In 2021 and 2022, Carl Eneroth’s film "The Child Murderess of Vesene", based on "It Came to Me on a Whim", won Best Short Documentary in Budapest, London, Miami, and New Jersey.
In the fall of 2025, Maria released her first nonfiction work, a guidebook to Washington, D.C., co-authored with Swedish journalist Karin Henriksson.
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