som Jakob Martin Strid har haft liggende i en papkasse i årevis

som fjernsynet kunne stå på

der solgte over 1 million eksemplarer i hendes hjemland og blev udgivet over hele verden

Den beskriver embedsmanden Jean Folantins daglige kamp for at sikre sig en smule lykke

Det er ikke rart

Swimming Home som Jakob Martin Strid harSelected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlistAs he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self proclaimed botanist with green painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and