Praise:
“…dazzling, uninhibited storytelling…A breathtaking performance.” — Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy
“Gentlemen is one of those classic, almost unlikely tall tales, that one only thought literary giants like Steinbeck and Faulkner were capable of producing.” — Borås Tidning
“Gentlemen captured me from the first line.” — Nerikes Allehanda
”Gentlemen changed my life…I devoured Gentlemen in a jiffy, and somehow it became a part of me.” — Katrineholms Kuriren
Gentlemen
By Klas Ostergren
April 13, 2007ISBN: 978-1-59692-206-8
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 375
Price: Rights: U.S.; Canada; Audio. Other Rights: Salomonsson Agency, Sweden
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About the Book
In print for the first time in the U.S., a literary celebration of Sweden’s battered, punch-drunk idea of the perfect gentleman.
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
It all began a year earlier, when he was rooming with Henry Morgan, a boxer, piano player, composer, bartender, and old-fashioned gentleman with a Gatsby-like capacity for turning life into a feast and absolutely no talent for keeping secrets.
The two friends led the high-life in Stockholm until the day Henry’s younger brother Leo — a star poet, drunk, political provocateur — showed up. Leo drags them into a scandal involving illegal weapons and gangsters, and soon the three men find themselves unwittingly and irreversibly trapped in a dangerous plot.
Written with an intense regard for storytelling and style, Gentlemen is the most important literary work to emerge from Sweden in the past thirty years — simultaneously celebrating and mourning the post-WWII era with its jazz music, poetry, hidden treasures, and espionage.