This is my second novel (available in both Swedish and English) an autobiographic story about the rivarely between two sisters and how family dynamics and generational patterns are reflecting in their drama.
The sisters leave their homecountry at different times (the older sister Ella escapes the dictatorship in Romania in the eighties while the younger, Ina leaves after the revolution 1990) to reconnect in Sweden.
Left by themselves in the new country of residence the sisters are trying to find ways to cope with the exile, each in her own way as they tried to cope with dictatorship several years earlier. In this quest they are clashing multiple times due to differences in character and temperament betweem them. They also find common points of hurt with echoes from the past.
In this challenging setting, the conflict deepens and takes new turns culminating with a triangle drama involving Johan, a swedish man Ella met prior to Ina's arrival in Sweden.
The resolution is dramatic and leaves shockvawes in Ina's life making her dig deeper into family traumas and collective patterns in her effort to heal.
Finally, she finds the courrage to break free from the toxic pattern between the sisters, a dynamic repeated at least three generations back in time. The question remains, what is morally deffendable and what is not.
It's up to you to decide.
The protagonist Ina has just escaped from a miserable patriotic labor camp in the countryside and together with her mum they try to navigate the corrupt society chasing a certificate to avoid punishment.
You can find a reading in Swedish bellow the reading in English. ==>
This touching e-mail diary follows the lives of two friends in their thirties living in Sweden and working for the same multinational company.
Unhappy about their work lives, feeling undervalued and bored they decide to resign just days from one another.
'Two very different personalities, they describe their hopes and expectations to each other in their search, the rejections they suffer along the way and finally the realisation that they may, in the end, have succeeded.
Light-hearted and romantic, sprinkled with despair and elation it tells how their lives were turned around in just a year in their quest to fulfill their dreams, with unexpected results. '
Pegasus Publishers
Cambridge UK
