Djupt inne i New Englands skogar står ett ensligt hus. Genom seklerna passerar män och kvinnor genom dess rum – drivna av begär, hemligheter och drömmar. Allt medan skogens träd, växter och djur tyst vakar, minns och förändras. En kvinna som flytt slaveriet, en major som blivit besatt av pomologi, en åldrad ungmö som tvingas ta till yxan, en amatörhistoriker som söker upprättelse, ett nygift par. En konstnär skriver brev, en läkare för journal, någon skriver ner historien i marginalen på en Bibel. Det grävs, planteras, skrattas, svettas, älskas och mördas med samma frenesi som skalbaggarna som sprider smitta i de omgivande almarna. Och sedan börjar allt om igen: ljudet, svirrandet, världens vrål, frör som gror.

En polyfon skröna om världens gång och skogarna i norr. Asken och boken, strimlönnen, rödeken, hemlocken, mattlummern, strutbräknarna, bergslejonet, vandringsduvorna . . .

🍃 A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. 🍃 ''North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal'' Maggie O''FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,''This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason''s genius'' Washington PostA SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND''Dazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious'' GuardianIS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.''It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale'' Sunday TimesIT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.''North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers'' The Times

🍃 ''THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER'' Mick Herron 🍃A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICKFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS

''This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes''Guardian

''Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPE . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple''Financial Times

''Mason deftly delivers larks aplenty, POIGNANCY, gentle satire and some top-tier farce. Be warned that the latter may cause you to spontaneously erupt with mirth in public places. This book DISPELS GLOOM: go for it''Irish Times

''There''s genuine ENCHANTMENT in this earthy tale of city folk transplanted to rural New England . . . It''s a WARM and delightfully whimsy free take on fables and family'' Mail on Sunday

''A CHARMING book about ambition, marriage and country living''Sunday Times Style

''VIRTUOSIC'' R4 Front Row

''LYRICAL and JOYFUL'' Sarah Jessica Parker

''Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason''s prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people'' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist

''A book to make the world feel a little LIGHTER, a little warmer'' Ron CharlesMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he''s become a disappointment to his family.

So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.

But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate''s, words, ''a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere''. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.

🍃 A FAMILY''S NEW BEGINNING. THE LOCAL''S OLDEST LEGEND. 🍃

Praise for Daniel Mason ''A virtuoso'' Mail on Sunday''Has the born storyteller''s gift'' Daily Mail''Genius'' Washington Post''Brave and original'' Guardian ''Never fails to surprise and delight'' Sunday Times''Teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters'' The Times ''Shows us what is possible when a writer lets his hair down'' Financial Times

Djupt inne i New Englands skogar står ett ensligt hus. Genom seklerna passerar män och kvinnor genom dess rum – drivna av begär, hemligheter och drömmar. Allt medan skogens träd, växter och djur tyst vakar, minns och förändras. En kvinna som flytt slaveriet, en major som blivit besatt av pomologi, en åldrad ungmö som tvingas ta till yxan, en amatörhistoriker som söker upprättelse, ett nygift par. En konstnär skriver brev, en läkare för journal, någon skriver ner historien i marginalen på en Bibel. Det grävs, planteras, skrattas, svettas, älskas och mördas med samma frenesi som skalbaggarna som sprider smitta i de omgivande almarna. Och sedan börjar allt om igen: ljudet, svirrandet, världens vrål, frör som gror.

En polyfon skröna om världens gång och skogarna i norr. Asken och boken, strimlönnen, rödeken, hemlocken, mattlummern, strutbräknarna, bergslejonet, vandringsduvorna . . .

🍃 A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. 🍃 ''North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal'' Maggie O''FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,''This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason''s genius'' Washington PostA SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND''Dazzling . . . weaves a Cloud Atlas-style narrative of humanity under pressure and nature under threat . . . Brave and original . . . intimate and epic, playful and serious'' GuardianIS HOME TO RUNAWAYS AND VISIONARIES, INSEPARABLE TWINS, A LOVELORN PAINTER, A DESPERATE MOTHER AND A RUTHLESS CON-MAN.''It seems almost a magic trick, the way in which Mason knits his lives into a single tale'' Sunday TimesIT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD.''North Woods has been heaped with praise and hype, and deservedly so. This is a book that treats life as a miracle and demands the proper awe from its readers'' The Times

🍃 ''THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER'' Mick Herron 🍃A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICKFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS

''This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes''Guardian

''Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPE . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple''Financial Times

''Mason deftly delivers larks aplenty, POIGNANCY, gentle satire and some top-tier farce. Be warned that the latter may cause you to spontaneously erupt with mirth in public places. This book DISPELS GLOOM: go for it''Irish Times

''There''s genuine ENCHANTMENT in this earthy tale of city folk transplanted to rural New England . . . It''s a WARM and delightfully whimsy free take on fables and family'' Mail on Sunday

''A CHARMING book about ambition, marriage and country living''Sunday Times Style

''VIRTUOSIC'' R4 Front Row

''LYRICAL and JOYFUL'' Sarah Jessica Parker

''Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason''s prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people'' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist

''A book to make the world feel a little LIGHTER, a little warmer'' Ron CharlesMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he''s become a disappointment to his family.

So when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.

But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate''s, words, ''a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere''. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.

🍃 A FAMILY''S NEW BEGINNING. THE LOCAL''S OLDEST LEGEND. 🍃

Praise for Daniel Mason ''A virtuoso'' Mail on Sunday''Has the born storyteller''s gift'' Daily Mail''Genius'' Washington Post''Brave and original'' Guardian ''Never fails to surprise and delight'' Sunday Times''Teases out the joy and meaning in the sometimes small lives of his characters'' The Times ''Shows us what is possible when a writer lets his hair down'' Financial Times