Category: Reviews

”A small masterpiece that catches the zeitgeist in the contradictory fashion required by such a task.”
“Lars Åberg’s new book is definitely one of this year’s great reading experiences.”
“He is Sweden’s foremost and most important writer about our age. Terrific art.”
“An unerring analysis of our times.”
“It is absolutely brilliant, profound, deeply penetrating, and elegantly sharp.”
“A delightful read at the center of public debate.”
“Åberg’s book on how Sweden’s changes came about is penetrating and brave. The text is a whirling dance, the writer returning to earlier observations which he remarkably enough manages to fill with new linguistic life.”
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”Must I add that this is one of the absolutely most important books of the year?”
“Åberg’s book is filled with important, on-the-spot observations. He has an outstanding ability to find precisely those particulars that can explain the failed integration processes.”
“He is equipped with the kind of courage that separates interesting writers from less interesting ones.”
“If it wasn’t so tragic, it might almost be poetic.”
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“Sweden’s sharpest contemporary observer.”
“Piercing criticism of the defects of Swedish integration policies.”
“Lars Åberg, what a journalist, what a writer!”
“It may well be a micro-distillate from and of a country in search of itself.”
“A thought-provoking analysis of Swedish immigration politics.”
“Written with brilliant journalistic diction and deep research… An invaluable depicter of the rise and fall of the Social Democratic project.”
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“One of the most important books I have read in a very long time.”
“It is the talk of the town in Copenhagen, Malmö and Stockholm.”
“Lars Åberg’s new book about Malmö is hair-raising.”
“If you want a deeper understanding of the situation in Malmö, you should read Lars Åberg’s new book.”
“A brave, pessimistic and affectionate book.”
“A personal and penetrating report.”
“It would be hard to imagine anyone more suited than Åberg to tell the story of Malmö’s transformation.”
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Both Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle recommend “Floating in Sausalito” in their respective Holiday Books Guides 2016!
“Handsome and invaluable.”
“Improbably but brilliantly written and photographed by two Swedes named Lars.”
“Captured with sensitivity and compassion.”
“A joy!”
“A glorious oversized picture book… they have an ocean’s worth of tales.”
“Unique portrait.”
“A coffee-table book too fine to risk spilling coffee on.”
“The most beautiful, fantastic book about our lifestyle!”
“It’s incredible, thank you for capturing my little floating world so beautifully.”
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Winner of the Swedish Design Award 2012!
”It’s lovely, lyrical in that cowboy way, unsentimental, and true.”
“Leave it to some Swedes to produce a gorgeous book about the American West.”
“Truly magnificent.”
“A real treasure, down to every detail. A superb book!”
“One of the best books I’ve seen. Just terrific.”
“Good job, gentlemen!”
“Photos and essays that ring painfully, powerfully and yet lovingly true.”
“The stunning book is an homage to the off-the-beaten path West…at once celebratory and non-stereotypically engrossing.”
“So beautiful, so magical, so inspiring.”
“Artists who ‘paint’ in visual, aural or printed media should keep this book close at hand.”
“‘West’ delves beneath the surface with a poetic investigative zeal.”
“Lars Aberg, Lars Strandberg, Ronnie Nilsson are an outstanding team… ‘
West’ is a definite ‘must have’ book.”
“A lovely portrait of the modern Western environment.”
“This is a coffee table book with a brain… it successfully balances Strandberg’s stunning photos and Aberg’s sparse, engaging prose poetry.”
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”Absolute world class travel writing.”
”Irresistible read…powerful and wilful narrative art… He writes so darn well, with his sharp, detailed prose taking the reader with him from the first page to the very last one…”
“No other European travel writer has captured the atmosphere of the American outback as well as Åberg.”
“”The lucky readers who´ll find “Cowboy” will dig it.”
“One of the best Swedish books about America, ever.”
“Lars Åberg is such a fine writer that one has to ponder the option of quitting the business.”
“A language which is a pleasure to read.”
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“…the book is very good… Everyone should read it.”
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“I thought I knew my Skåne well. But now that I read “Cape Scania” – my God, all these things that I have missed, all these golden gates that open up…”
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”Absolute world class travel writing.”
”Irresistible read…powerful and wilful narrative art… He writes so darn well, with his sharp, detailed prose taking the reader with him from the first page to the very last one…”
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“”Ett varmt regn skall falla” (“A Warm Rain´s A-Gonna Fall”) is not the sort of book that will make you happy, but it is an absolutely brilliant account of the still ongoing Indian wars.”
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“Åberg´s book (“Forked Tongue” in translation) is so good that one would like to see it widely spread and, preferably, used as supplementary reading in schools.”
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