“Little Darling. To others, she’s a bimbo. A little slutty. Pretty superficial. But not to me. Little Darling is the meaning of my life. I just don’t know how to tell her.”
Every morning Jerry paints a circle of sorrow around his eyes, black kohl ag ...
“Little Darling. To others, she’s a bimbo. A little slutty. Pretty superficial. But not to me. Little Darling is the meaning of my life. I just don’t know how to tell her.”
Every morning Jerry paints a circle of sorrow around his eyes, black kohl against the blue. Some believe he’s gay because he wears makeup but it’s not like that. He just has so many black feelings that he has to show all the black.
Among the others in the gang, he feels like a shadow, one who exists and glides along but who is otherwise entirely uninteresting. And at home, the divide between him and his charismatically Christian parents is bottomless. Except for
his little sister Annie, Little Darling is the only one who is important to Jerry. He sees something in her that nobody else in the gang sees, and he knows that she smells like summer – a rainy summer.
The multi-award winning author Johanna Nilsson is back with an insightful story about loneliness, love and identity.
Johanna Nilsson serves us a contemporary portrait from the suburb written in incredibly beautiful language. She has been praised for her ability to portray, with great insight and strong, unusual characters, as well as for her colorful imagination and her poetic and simple language.
She has received, without exception, very good reviews.
Press voices about Johanna Nilsson’s earlier books:
“Johanna Nilsson has the ability to express the big and the small in a curious combination of simplicity and focus, and in addition, in a brilliantly beautiful language.”
BTJ about The Country With the Thousand Names
“Magic, contemporary stories and a beautiful language – things are happening in Swedish young adult literature.”
Borås Tidning about Robin With the Hood