The Antarctica of Love

They say you die three times. \r\nThe first time for me was when my heart stopped beating beneath his hands by the lake.\r\nThe second was when what was left of me was lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Bromma Church. \r\nThe third will be the last time my name is spoken on earth.\r\n\r\nA haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsbergs literary talent left me awestruck Kate Reed Petty, author of True Story\r\nA disturbingly beautiful book Expressen\r\n\r\nInni lives her life on the margins, but it is a life that is full and complex, filled with different shades of dark and light... Until she is brutally murdered one summers day, on a lake shore at the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest.\r\n\r\nOn the surface, this is the story of the moment her life is violently extinguished - a moment that will never end, not ever - but it is also about the time before, and about the lives that carry on afterwards. Its about her children, her parents, her childhood of neglect, her volatile adolescence, and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with the wrong person.\r\n\r\nSara Stridsbergs new novel is about absolute vulnerability, brutality and isolation. At times disturbing, this is a devastating story of unexpected love, tenderness and light in the total darkness.\r\n\r\nTranslated from Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner