Popular Music

'A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests - and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from 'the Nick Hornby of the Arctic' (Marina Warner, Sunday Times) It's the 1960s, and pop records are gradually finding their way into the eager hands of teenagers in the far north of Sweden. Young Matti dreams of being a rock star - but in the tiny ice-bound village of Pajala, a boy should really spend his time cultivating more manly pursuits, such as hunting elk, drinking moonshine and fighting on dancefloors...Popular Music is one of the freshest, funniest debuts of recent years, and winner of the August prize, Sweden's equivalent of the Man Booker. So wrap up warm and join Matti and the unforgettable community of Pajala in a wonderful tale of weddings, funerals and marathon sauna contests, the incomparable thrill of your first kiss - and of finally hearing the Beatles.

Literature & Fiction

Mikael Niemi

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2008. Pages: 304 in Publisher: Vintage A series of tales based around outer space Astrotruckers is funny. perverse. inventive and istling with unstoppable imagination In the illuminating company of an astrotrucker we to meet the ponorists uathose the who venture into outer space beyond the point of no return uadiscover the most popular and most pungent Earth mementos taken into space and learn the essential difference between humans and androids. He clarifies the murky areas of human knowledge: the meaning of the oldest writing in the universe . who set off the big bang. the scientific explanation for Murphy's Law. the catalyst for the death of literature and. not to be forgotten. how the world will end. What do you say to an intellectually superior fistular maggot who wants to observe you watching football How many doors get slammed in ...

ASTROTRUCKERS

Short Stories & Anthologies

Vintage

To Cook a Bear

Populärmusik Från Vittula

Matti och hans tystlåtna kompis Niila växer upp i det barnrika kvarter i Pajalas utkant som i folkmun kallas Vittulajänkkä, förkortat Vittula, och i översättning betyder Fittmyren, så kallat »som ett slags rå hyllning till den kvinnliga fruktsamheten«.\nDet är sexti- och sjuttital, vägarna asfalteras, småjordbruken läggs ned, rockmusiken gör sin entré. De äldre generationerna bjuder dock hårt motstånd mot nymodigheterna, arvet från trettitalets magerår och från laestadianismen sitter djupt rotat. Men Mikael och hans kompisar drömmer om ett annat liv, det som kan anas bortom Tornedalens horisont.

Populärmusik från Vittula

Norstedts

Koka björn

Piratförlaget

Norstedts Pocket

Swedish language edition. Mass market paperback.

Popularmusik Fran Vittula

Omslag Av Patrik Lindvall

Ett intensivt regnande har plågat nordligaste Norrland hela hösten. Det är här, i Lule älv, mot den norska gränsen, som kraftverkens enorma vattenmagasin ligger på rad. En dag händer det ofattbara plötsligt reser sig en grå vägg, det är dammarna som till slut brister, enorma krafter släpps lösa och en flodvåg som inte borde finnas sveper undan allt i sin väg.

Fallvatten

Pocketförlaget

Popular Music (Popular Music, Vol. 19 Part 1)

Arts & Photography

Music

Cambridge Univ Pr/Journal Dept

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