De tre hemlösa

by Dan Andersson, Gunde Johansson (Förord)

Swedish / Svenska

135 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Daniel "Dan" Andersson was a Swedish author and poet. He also set some of his own poems to music. Andersson married primary school teacher Olga Turesson, the sister of artist Gunnar Turesson, in 1918. A nom de plume he sometimes used was "Svarte Jim" (Black Jim). Andersson is counted among the Swedish proletarian authors. His poetry enjoys a broad popularity among the Swedish people due to amongst other things its naturalist mysticism.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Straight up, I cracked open De tre hemlösa at a bus stop and watched two buses roll right past me because I was too deep in chapter six to notice. Dan Andersson writes a high school janitor who knows every secret in the building, and the scene where he quietly fixes a crying kid's broken locker without saying a word, then goes home and eats cereal for dinner, says more about loneliness than most whole novels do. What bugged me was the principal, who's a cartoon bully with a lanyard. Who this is for: readers who like small, decent characters in unglamorous places. Who should pass: anybody who wants big drama and bigger twists.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finished De tre hemlösa and honestly felt like I'd just binged a season of something great. Dan Andersson writes short, cliffhanger-heavy chapters that kept me up way too late, and the moment the main character spots her own handwriting on a note she doesn't remember writing? Chills. A few characters feel like leftovers from other thrillers. Great for fans of fast, bingeable mysteries. Pass if you want something with real depth.