Joyce Carol Oates ”Beloved sister”. Photo: Albert Bonniers förlag
Albert Bonniers förlag, 651 pages
If biopicen ”In, Tonya,” did Tonya Hardings tough upbringing and the mother’s obsession to trill the daughter of konståkningsprinsessa to a knegarskildring of desperate dreams, Joyce Carol Oates already eleven years earlier that there is no klasspecifik story. In the ”Beloved sister” from 2010, it is at least as bad in the waspiga the family, where a tokreligiös mother groomar his six-year-old daughter to be Little Miss Jersey Ice Princess. It is a skarpslipad 600-page satire on the social aspiration and to reflect themselves in their children’s success. Kristofer Ahlström
Tom Examples of ”Sudden death”. Photo: Wahlström & Widstrand
Wahlström & Widstrand, 85 pages
Tom Examples of poetry from 2007 is something as unusual as a hockeyuppväxtskildring, and violence be taught at a young vinnarskallar vibrates at the isvita pages. Spearing. Buttending. The Cross-checking. The language is full of american words for the different forms of violence – offences which both violate the rules of the game and its charms. ”Sudden death” is not just a reminder to let the gloves remain on the shelf. In the hands of more potential läktarpappor is a threat to the growth of american hockey. Jacob Lundström
Lena Andersson’s ”Sveas son”. Photo: Polaris
Polaris, 242 pages
There is a fantastic skidåkningsscen in Lena Andersson’s beautifully stylized folkhemsroman ”Sveas son”, where the main character Ragnar and his daughter Elsa in the early morning standing at a flimsy cross-country ski trails at the golf course in Järfälla. The rainfall hitting that tacks to the face, but a figure pinar in the track with saltränder in the lower back on the träningsdräkten: the local star Jyrki Ristolainen. Elsa wants to give up the training, the father becomes furious: ”Enough of it for Jyrki Ristolainen, then enough of it for you!” It is a timeless depiction of the tension between convenience and compassion – the lives of both Ragnar and Elsa and anyone. Björn Wiman
Sverker Sörlins ”Body genius.” Photo: Weyler förlag
Weyler förlag, 382 pages
cross-country Skiing was a long time skogshuggarens paradgren. Tree felling, delimbing and vedklyvning was good basic training. But why has cross-country skiing, always had a stronger position in the turglada Norway? ”Body genius” dig personally and pleasantly in skiing, cultural roots. Sverker Sörlin shows how the sport retained its appeal even when society modernized, and the lumberjack took place at the assembly line. Mora-Nisse had anxiety over underträning at their sedentary jobs in the knivfabriken – something that today’s kontorsarbetande cross-country skier can certainly relate to. Sverker Lenas
Povel Ramel, Zackarias Topelius, Oscar II, Mats Holmberg and Siv Cedering Fox are some of the poets who have written skridskodikter. Photo: DN
DN publishing house, 100 pages
Is there anything better than that under the blanket, in their own soffas security read about people on the slide? In the skridskopoetiska the anthology ”Blank is the ice”, it is greatly happy, both during the stålskorna and language. Here are the (semi -) new and old, pekoraliskt and eftertänkt, cold and solblänkt. This rhymes pale in the cheek with the whirlwind, ice with kurtis and sprintertag with winter. In addition, you get to know that Erik Gustaf Geijer dog with a few new ideas under the bed. Harald Bergius
Tove Jansson’s ”Trollvinter”. Photo: Rabén & Sjögren
Rabén & Sjögren, 127 pages
in an otherwise very snödunkel Finnish atmosphere in Tove Jansson’s ”Trollvinter” from 1957, a large hemul ride on skis with a mässingshorn as he blows in. As a Norwegian hurtig revelation of healthy outdoor activities and much shouting and laughing. Moomintroll notes with concern that he does not think that hemulen is nice, while the hemulen finds that the man ”get so easy ideas” if you are innesittare. Otrevnaden spreads to the other guests in the Moomin and finally realize the troll that he must do something drastic. He has my full sympathy. Jonas Thente
Geir Gulliksens ”Story of a marriage”. Photo: Weyler förlag
Weyler förlag, 174 pages
”He was skidtränare. She sat there and looked out into the empty air and thought she did too.” It is a Norwegian romance so it is. In the ”Story of a marriage” portrays Geir Gulliksen a – at the same time peculiar, and completely ordinary – marital maturity, how everything collapses when the narrator’s wife happen to see another man in the eyes for a long time and then linger later and later, tracks with him. So also the new man one of the novel’s most loaded lines: ”I have always loved to ski alone. But now, I think most on to go along with you.” Greta Thurfjell