A novel excerpt by Cecilia Hansson
From Natur och Kultur, 2019, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson
A BEGINNING OF SORTS
When I go to Erstagatan to be unfaithful it is spring, and I am 31 years old.
For four years I’ve been trapped...
When I go to Erstagatan to be unfaithful it is spring, and I am 31 years old.
For four years I’ve been trapped...
It starts like a great spring exhaustion. But after a couple of days the spaces between my ribs begin to tingle, and my head hurts like I have a migraine.
I think about the Easter eggs, the cake that needs to be baked, and the family excursions we...