The Whispers

“And I can say without exaggeration that I didn’t need more problems during the period in question. I had just finished writing Splendor and, awaiting publication, was trying to gain control of my life […] The ways in which the story continued to seek me out feel too esoteric to cover here, but perhaps suffice it to say that things that I wrote in the script, and which were only the fruits of my overheated imagination, began to take shape in real life.”

After “The nights at Mon Chéri” and the August-nominated “Splendor”, author Stefan Lindberg now concludes his trilogy with the novel “The Whispers”. In inimitable prose, we get to know enchanted castle parks, sexual entanglements in young literary nineties Stockholm, and a childhood obscured by a father suspected of espionage. In eight stories, the breathtaking novel ties together now and then, dream and reality, and paints a fresco of life in modern Sweden.