'Blue Woman', naked power relations. Antje Rávik Strubel's novel narrates inequality in Europe through a young Czech woman whose dreams are cut short by a rape.

In Germany, out of a hundred reported rapes, only ten end in a conviction. That is below the European average. Most sex offenders go free. Only five percent of all sexual crimes are reported in Scandinavia. In Scandinavia fifty rape cases are reported each year.” The delicacy with which he portrays his protagonist is one of the great achievements of Blue Woman.