Edens bakgård

by P C Jersild

About the book:

The homeless man Roland Rajamäki is offered a job as a nighttime security guard at an office where strange things begin to happen. The company lures customers to its “experiential centre” with three-dimensional simulations of space voyages and safaris as well as pedophilia and sexual murders. An economic recession spurs the company to come up with a new and revolutionary idea: the company is reconstructed as a church, using the same virtual reality technology to offer customers salvation, trips to heaven or journeys into hell under the guise of freedom of religious belief.

Edens bakgård is a typical Jersild novel combining realism and fantasy. It is also an exploration of the human mind, written with a cynical yet jovial sense of humour.

About the author:

P C Jersild is one of the great Swedish storytellers. He has written several modern classics. Many novels combine the present and the future, such as En levande själ (1980), Efter floden (1982) and De ondas kloster (2003). He is also a celebrated columnist at Dagens Nyheter and has won numerous awards: Stora romanpriset, De nios stora pris, Selma Lagerlöfspriset and Övralidspriset. His books have been translated to sixteen languages.

Will be published in september 2009