Det börjar ännu tidigare

by Joakim Forsberg

In the letter, I began to realize what patterns made up my life. And in the hope of finding meaning and a new start I embraced life, let it come rattling against me in a long chain of possible starts: colorful, mean, comic, surreal, crass. Like loving tales and evil fairy tales. Portraits and images evoked each other, began to move until I could feel them with my body, skin and heart. I fell through a spiral of experience, finally settling on the bottom of a hole, on a farm, in a sandbox in Kiruna. Here, I think, is the start of my arduous climb back to the point of my life's beginning.

A novel about the skill of loving every last son of a b*tch.

372 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Linn Björneld · Rating 4 out of 5]

Det är något med att läsa böcker ur killar i min ålders perspektiv. Jag gillar det för att det går att förstå dem lite mer samtidigt som jag stundvis förundras av att de kanske är en annan art. Lite samma känsla som när man läser Andrev Walden. Jag gillar ju böcker som skildrar unga människors vilsenhet. Det har vi ju alltid gemensamt

[Thomas Stroemquist · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great Swedish 'novel for a generation' from the late 90's. Very well written, dark humor, existential questions and the hardships of growing up. Had this been around when I was a teenager, I would have read it to pieces.

[Set · Rating 5 out of 5]

Changed my life when i was 17 years old. Trying to read it again a decade later, i realised it is perfect for young people going over to the grown-up life, not so much perfect for adults such as my current self.