The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature.

Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their ...

Paints the portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.

Traces the development of Sweden from a poor, backward, warrior nation to a prosperous modern one. Scott provides a broad-based general history that is narrative and interpretive.

" "The Northern Wars is based on extensive primary and secondary material in several languages, containing much material that is unfamiliar in English.

Sinners and Citizens explores how sexual habits changed in Sweden during its development from an agrarian society into a modern welfare state.

Selfish little Nils learns kindness and wisdom when, bewitched into an elf-sized boy, he is carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland.

"Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness.

From the Publisher: Book One-introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850.

On an island, thinks the grandmother, "everything is complete." In "The Summer Book," Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the joys and sorrows of our time on earth.