num_pages: 256
description: Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.Brand-new stories by: Unni Drougge Inger Edelfeldt Carl-Michael Edenborg ke Edwardson Torbjrn Elensky Inger Frimansson Carl Johan De Geer Martin Holmn Nathan Larson Malte Persson Anna-Karin Selberg Johan Theorin and Lina Wolff.From the introduction by Nathan Larson &amp; Carl-Michael Edenborg:To the tourist the city of Stockholm appears a shimmering dream. Laid out on a series of islands it is verdant clean and surrounded by crystalline water. On paper Stockholm is paradise. And in some respects it truly is. But in most respects it is anything but...In Stockholm Noir the city is presented as a gaping maw ready to devour your soul should you wander down the wrong alley...Everywhere is noir. Even and especially in a paradise like Sweden where the citizen is given every tool to go out and become a great success but is paradoxically held to an almost subliminal expectation to fall in line...and never shine so brightly that you disturb your neighbor...In this anthology it's our aim to showcase the darker grittier more intense world of Swedish noir fiction. Here the dangers lurking beneath the IKEA lifestyle are given free rein and words are given to the ambivalence and despair of a model society.
language: English
title: Stockholm Noir
publisher: Akashic Books