Klas Östergren

Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers. It all began a year earlier, when he was rooming with Henry Morgan, a boxer, piano player, composer, bartender, and old-fashioned gentleman with a Gatsby-like capacity for turning life into a feast and absolutely no talent for keeping secrets. The two friends led the high-life in Stockholm until the day Henry’s younger brother Leo – a star poet, drunk, political provocateur – showed up. Leo drags them into a scandal involving illegal weapons and gangsters, and soon the three men find themselves unwittingly and irreversibly trapped in a dangerous plot. Written with an intense regard for storytelling and style,Gentlemenis the most important literary work to emerge from Sweden in the past thirty years – simultaneously celebrating and mourning the post-WWII era with its jazz music, poetry, hidden treasures, and espionage.

A Novel

Gentlemen

Handlingen i denne thrilleragtige roman, der knytter sig direkte til sin forgænger, spænder fra slutningen af 1970-erne og 25 år fremover. Den ligner et bittert og sort billede af det moderne Sverige og afslører kynismen, hykleriet og korruptionen i samfundets top

roman

Gangsters

Moving from the golden halls to the depths of the underworld, The Hurricane Party is about one man's search for justice for his son in a world on the brink. A place where true love is so strong it can bring about the end of time.

The Hurricane Party

Det är våren 2018. En händelserik tid. På mycket långt avstånd ser berätteren en gestalt som verkar på något sätt bekant. Mycket riktigt. Det är Henry Morgan. Han är på pilgrimsvandring genom Europa, från Wien och på väg upp till Lappland för att få träffa sin son. Och hans ankomst får naturligtvis konsekvenser

Renegater

Klas Östergrens Två pistoler är en roman på historisk grund om en av de mest omvälvande epokerna i Sveriges historia, Gustav III:s regeringstid och oron efteråt som präglade landet från kungens död och till Sverige fick en ny dynasti med huset Bernadotte. Men framför allt är det en knivskarp skildring inifrån åldrandet och ensamheten, en berättelse om hur tiden flyr från oss alla.

Två pistoler

Större trygghet aldrig fanns

roman om en myt

Orkanpartyt

Spændingsroman fra Stockholm i 1960'erne og 1970'erne

Ravioli

Handelsmän och partisaner

Ankare

Under i september

Hanck Orn's son is dead. When they come to the door they tell him it was a heart attack, but he knows they are lying. So he travels to the outermost reaches of the land to find out what really happened. When he lands on the island he is met by a young woman, hair streaked with blood, raving like a lunatic. She is one of the sisters, who tell him the story of how his son died in the great hall of the Clan, the Norse gods, who were holding a party. But the festivities soon got out of hand, the guests began to argue with one another, and the mischievous shapeshifter Loki dealt a deadly blow. Set in a dystopian future that recalls Orwell and Zamyatin, Klas Ostergren has weaved a dizzying story of magnificent scope and foul play. Moving from the golden halls to the depths of the underworld, it is about one man's search for justice for his son in a world on the brink. A place where true love is so strong it can bring about the end of time.

Roué de coups, meurtri et terrifié, un jeune écrivain se cache dans un appartement de Stockholm pour écrire l'histoire de ses habitants disparus : les charismatiques frères Morgan. Tout a commencé un an plus tôt, alors qu'il partageait l'appartement de Henry Morgan, boxeur, pianiste, barman et dandy. Les deux amis mènent la belle vie à Stockholm jusqu'au jour où le jeune frère de Henry, Leo - poète, alcoolique, provocateur politique - fait son apparition. Les trois hommes se retrouvent bientôt pris au piège d'une machination qui les dépasse. Au centre, Maud, l'amante, la muse, femme manipulatrice et fatale. Depuis sa publication en Suède en 1980, Gentlemen est devenu un classique, un livre culte, traduit dans vingt-trois pays. Trésor caché de la littérature contemporaine enfin accessible en langue française, ce roman a influencé des générations de lecteurs. Klas Ostergren a publié Gangsters, la suite tant attendue, en 2005.

Klas Östergren

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