Engagement

Effortlessly contemporary, even refreshing... Aside from writerly skill and timely resonance, part of why Engagement feels so immediate is that its strident politics are married to an eternal, universal central conceit: people not being able to love another as they want to be loved

Effortlessly contemporary, even refreshing... Aside from writerly skill and timely resonance, part of why Engagement feels so immediate is that its strident politics are married to an eternal, universal central conceit: people not being able to love another as they want to be loved

A novel from which you never really recover

Honest, self-searching, endearingly puzzled at every development, Martina is a pleasure to be with – for us, if not for Gustav. Her voice is brisk, conversational, contingent – we could almost imagine her unpacking the shopping as she explains herself

Gun-Britt Sundström (Author)
Gun-Britt Sundström (b.1945) works as an author, critic and translator. She is the author of sixteen books, including Engagement (1976). Since the 1990s, Gun-Britt Sundström has established herself as one of Sweden’s foremost translators of children’s books and fiction. She received the Helga Prize in 2019 for her ‘linguistic sensitivity, self-distance, black humour and acuity'.

Kathy Saranpa (Translator)
Kathy Saranpa (b.1955) is a literary translator living in Germany. Her first book-length translation was Ingrid and Joachim Wall’s A Silenced Voice (2020) . She serves on the Committee of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors and on the advisory board of Books from Sweden .