In his first novel translated into French,
Les Survivants
(Albin Michel, 2022), the Swede Alex Schulman set the tone.
The family, with its share of dysfunctions and ambiguities, will be his hobby horse.
The only fascinating subject capable of dissecting the human soul in what is most burning and most formidable.
It was then a question of siblings and trauma.
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, the traumas are just as present, it is even a heritage passed down from generation to generation.
The train heading towards the small town of Malma transports, at different times, the three main characters.
In 1976, Harriet, a tormented little girl, travels with her impressive, mute and chilling father, Bo.
Twenty-five years later, she undertakes the same journey, this time accompanied by her husband Oskar.
The couple is on the verge of breaking up.
Then it's the turn of Yana, a young woman who is overweight and uncomfortable in her skin, to take years...
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