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- E-bokEngelska, 2020
179 kr
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Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee''s friendship with the future founder of IKEA.Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to become the founder of IKEA. Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jews, the thirteen-year-old Otto was granted permission to enter Sweden--all in accordance with the Swedish archbishop''s secret plan to save Jews on condition that they converted to Christianity. Otto found work as a farmhand at the Kamprad family''s farm Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd in the province of Småland. Ingvar and Otto became very close friends. But at the same time, Ingvar Kamprad was actively engaged in Nazi organizations and a great supporter of the fascist Per Engdahl. Otto''s parents were trapped in Vienna, and the last letters he received were sent from Theresienstadt. With thorough research, including personal files initiated by the predecessor to today''s Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) and more than 500 letters, Elisabeth Åsbrink illustrates how Swedish society was infused with anti-Semitism and how families are shattered by war and asylum politics. - E-bokEngelska, 2017
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As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age — the one we call now.
This shift does not happen overnight, from one day to the next; instead, the world vibrates for a number of years. People try to find their way back to homes that are no longer there, or on to an uncertain future across the sea. Some run from their deeds, and most get away. Among the millions in flight across Europe looking for a new home in 1947 is Elisabeth Åsbrink’s father.
In 1947, production begins of the Kalashnikov, Christian Dior creates the New Look, Simone de Beauvoir writes The Second Sex, the first computer bug is discovered, the CIA is set up, a clockmaker’s son draws up the plan that remains the goal of jihadists to this day, and a UN Committee is given four months to find a solution to the problem of Palestine.
In 1947, Elisabeth Åsbrink chronicles the creation of the modern world, as the forces that will go on to govern all our lives during the next 70 years first make themselves known.
- E-bokEngelska, 2019
227 kr
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What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model?
In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi — their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in their perfectly designed society from the future. But what if we have invested all our faith in a fantasy? What if Sweden has in fact never been as moderate, egalitarian, dignified, or tolerant as it would like to (have us) think? The recent rise to political prominence of an openly neo-Nazi party has begun to crack the illusion, and here now is Swede Elisabeth Åsbrink, who loves her country ‘but not blindly’, presenting twenty-five of her nation’s key words and icons afresh, in order to give the world a clearer-eyed understanding of this fascinating country …
- E-bokTyska, 2017
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"Ich versuche, das Jahr 1947 zu einem zersplitterten Ganzen zusammenzufügen. Es ist Wahnsinn, doch die Zeit lässt mir keine Ruhe." Damals ist jetzt. Jetzt, im Jahr 1947, scheint die Zeit zu verschwimmen, überall werden die Uhren neu gestellt. Erinnern und Vergessen waren neben Nationalismus und Migration die stärksten Antriebskräfte der Menschen. Heute sind sie es wieder, und abermals sortiert die Welt sich neu. Vergleichbar mit Florian Illies'' "1913. Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts", beschäftigt sich Elisabeth Åsbrink in ihrem Buch mit den Geschehnissen eines Jahres, das die Welt für immer verändert hat. Dabei ergeben sich ebenso überraschende wie aufschlussreiche Zusammenhänge zu den Ereignissen unserer Tage, die die Gegenwart verständlicher machen. Wieder ist Elisabeth Åsbrink dabei eine wunderbare Erzählerin. Mit feinem literarischem Gespür verknüpft sie Fakten mit menschlichen Schicksalen und macht das Jahr 1947 zum Jetzt.
