Authors: Martin Holmén
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THE SPECTRE OF ALEXANDER WOLF
GAITO GAZDANOV
‘A mesmerising work of literature’ Antony Beevor
BINOCULAR VISION
EDITH PEARLMAN
‘A genius of the short story’ Mark Lawson,
Guardian
TRAVELLER OF THE CENTURY
ANDRÉS NEUMAN
‘A beautiful, accomplished novel: as ambitious as it is generous, as moving as it is smart’ Juan Gabriel Vásquez,
Guardian
BEWARE OF PITY
STEFAN ZWEIG
‘Zweig’s fictional masterpiece’
Guardian
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY
STEFAN ZWEIG
‘
The World of Yesterday
is one of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century, as perfect in its evocation of the world Zweig loved, as it is in its portrayal of how that world was destroyed’ David Hare
JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT
ANTAL SZERB
‘Just divine… makes you imagine the author has had private access to your own soul’ Nicholas Lezard,
Guardian
BONITA AVENUE
PETER BUWALDA
‘One wild ride: a swirling helix of a family saga… a new writer as toe-curling as early Roth, as roomy as Franzen and as caustic as Houellebecq’
Sunday Telegraph
THE PARROTS
FILIPPO BOLOGNA
‘A five-star satire on literary vanity… a wonderful, surprising novel’
Metro
I WAS JACK MORTIMER
ALEXANDER LERNET-HOLENIA
‘Terrific… a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre’ Eileen Battersby,
Irish Times
SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM
PETER FRÖBERG IDLING
‘Beautifully evocative… a must-read novel’
Daily Mail
THE RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY
PASI ILMARI JÄÄSKELÄINEN
‘Wonderfully knotty… a very grown-up fantasy masquerading as quirky fable. Unexpected, thrilling and absurd’
Sunday Telegraph
RED LOVE: THE STORY OF AN EAST GERMAN FAMILY
MAXIM LEO
‘Beautiful and supremely touching… an unbearably poignant description of a world that no longer exists’
Sunday Telegraph
THE BREAK
PIETRO GROSSI
‘Small and perfectly formed… reaching its end leaves the reader desirous to start all over again’
Independent
FROM THE FATHERLAND, WITH LOVE
RYU MURAKAMI
‘If Haruki is
The Beatles
of Japanese literature, Ryu is its
Rolling Stones
’ David Pilling
BUTTERFLIES IN NOVEMBER
AUÐURAVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR
‘A funny, moving and occasionally bizarre exploration of life’s upheavals and reversals’
Financial Times
BARCELONA SHADOWS
MARC PASTOR
‘As gruesome as it is gripping… the writing is extraordinarily vivid… Highly recommended’
Independent
THE LAST DAYS
LAURENT SEKSIK
‘Mesmerising… Seksik’s portrait of Zweig’s final months is dignified and tender’
Financial Times
BY BLOOD
ELLEN ULLMAN
‘Delicious and intriguing’
Daily Telegraph
WHILE THE GODS WERE SLEEPING
ERWIN MORTIER
‘A monumental, phenomenal book’
De Morgen
THE BRETHREN
ROBERT MERLE
‘A master of the historical novel’
Guardian
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Original text © Martin Holmén 2015
Translation © Henning Koch 2016
First published as
Clinch
by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm, Sweden
Published in the English language by arrangement with Bonnier Rights, Stockholm, Sweden
First published in English by Echo Publishing in 2015
First published by Pushkin Vertigo in 2016
ISBN 978 1 782272 05 2
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You Were Never Really Here
The Murdered Banker
The Mystery of the Three Orchids
The Hotel of the Three Roses
Death Going Down
The Disappearance of Signora
Giulia
Bird in a Cage
Crush
The Wicked Go to Hell
Clinch
I Was Jack Mortimer
Vertigo
She Who Was No More
Master of the Day of Judgment
Little Apple
St Peter’s Snow
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
The Inugami Clan