European Trash: Fourteen Ways to Remember a Father

Winner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize."One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences."--Michel Ekman, "Svenska Dagbladet""Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash."--Amelie Bjorck, "Goteborgs-Posten"Combining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, "European Trash [...]
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Winner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize."One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences."--Michel Ekman, "Svenska Dagbladet""Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash."--Amelie Bjorck, "Goteborgs-Posten"Combining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, "European Trash" is a humorous, moving, and elegiac novel that "circles" around the image of the author's father who, through his assemblage of objects, art, and wisdom--collected in his flat in Malmo, Sweden--strives to keep the culture and values that others might call "European Trash" intact."I open the door and walk into my father's empty apartment. Already in the hall I get the feeling that he is still in the kitchen making coffee, quickly turning around to look in my direction. In that unfamiliar silence, visions and memories are released: how he walked toward me with that gleam in his eye, how he pronounced my name, how he inspected me to check my level of fatigue."Ulf Peter Hallberg is a Swedish writer born in Malmo, Sweden, who has lived in Berlin, Germany, since 1983. He is the author of many books, including "The Glance of the Flaneur" (translated into German and Italian), "Grand Tour," "Legends & Lies," and "European Trash."Erland Anderson has published several books in translation, including "Between Darkness," "Darkness: Selected Poems" by Rolf Aggestam (with Lars Nordstrom, 1989), and "Views from a Tuft of Grass" by Harry Martinson (2005).Ingrid Cassady is from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently lives in California.