The girlfriends are the problem – that's the depressing chord struck here. Matters improve in the third-person stories ("Four Hundred Kronor", "Ginger Cat"), partly because the larger perspective imposes discipline on the writing, and also because the characters sharpen up a bit in the presence of men. Told, in most cases, through the eyes of teenage girls or young women, these stories exhibit a unique prose style that perfectly captures the conversational. Hon debuterade 1998 med romanen Det var ur munnarna orden kom, och har sedan dess givit ut romanerna Jrnntter (2000) och Motsols (2005) samt novellsamlingen Brorsan r mtt (2007). In "Attic" a naive student hands over all her rent money to a flatmate who steals all her possessions and she's stunned to discover that her "friend" hasn't made the payments after all. Mirja Unge, fdd 1973, har hyllats fr sin srprglade berttarstil och ftt flera prestigefyllda priser fr sina bcker. She doesn't think about it much during or after the party either. I hadn't really thought about it, just stood there in the door." Right. "It was nice of them to come and, like, bother about the fact you're turning eighteen and that. Follow to get new release updates and improved recommendations. The protagonists are all young women, so that makes a certain sense, but – in the first-person narratives – they all seem to be the same young woman: slightly dim, with a pervading sense of inferiority, and relentlessly focused on the mundane. T his debut collection made a big impact in Sweden, particularly with adolescent girls.
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