Captain Nemo's Library

Captain Nemo's Library Per Olov Enquist In this novel by one of Sweden's most prominent novelists and playwrights, an old man, looks back on his childhood in rural northern Sweden, attempting to unravel the meaning of a traumatic event in his past. Enquist's obsessive and haunted tale combines philosophical interludes with deeply heart-wrenching passages, creating one of the most moving fictions of the latter twentieth century.