![]() ![]() I knew I had to choose something that would hold my interest – and the story/tragedy of AIDS happens to be one of the things that still conjures up all kinds of emotion and anger – this huge sense of loss – even though I have no tangible connection to it. It was interesting to delve into these books as my first foray into reading books in Swedish. ![]() Och när vi väl är där får du inte blinka för då missar du hela tätörten.” Yes, that’s just about 100% accurate. ![]() Near the end of the third book, one of the main characters (one of the only ones left alive) exits the train in Åmotfors, which is already a podunk, middle-of-nowhere, close-to-nothing town, and asks the guy who picks him up, “Ar det långt till Koppom?” As a ‘foreigner’ living here especially it’s entertaining. It’s strange to see the ‘backwards’ countryside of western Värmland represented (and to read about it). Finally finished up reading Jonas Gardell’s Kärleken/ Sjukdomen/ Döden (Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar) trilogy (the TV version is also good). ![]()
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