Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap.
Fredrik Sj berg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmar , in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books, including The Fly Trap and The Raisin King, which form a trilogy with The Art of Flight.
Digressive, discursive and delightful.
*Telegraph*
A joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap
marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he
completes a trilogy.
*Nature*
By his own admission Sjöberg has a "butterfly mind"; the effect of
his narrative excursions amounts to a sort of Sebald-lite, albeit
without the fictional element. What insures this approach against
triviality is the author's patient alertness to pattern, to telling
correspondence.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive . .
. a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjöberg writes with
infectious passion.
*Independent*
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