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2010 Tiger
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Connie is all but the perfect girl. In her early teens, yet still small and flatchested, with an absent father, heavily drinking, often travelling foster parents, and grades as bad as they can possibly get, Connie’s chances to any success in life are, to say the least, questionable. Growing up in the small town of Jönköping in South of Sweden in the 70’s, Connie is painfully aware of her belonging to the lowest of underdogs. Her only safety are her loyal and unruly girlfriends: The Shrimp, Sirkka, and Little, and Kalle, her childhood companion. Together the girls form the sisterhood ”Sisters in crime”, a pact against the grown up world, committed to breaking any rules and boundaries set out for girls their age. However, when Connie helplessly falls in love with Anna, her given place within the Sisters is threatened, as is her friendship with Kalle. Desperately fighting her awakening feelings, or what she herself names “The Bad”, Connie is soon leading a double life, getting deeper and deeper entangled in her own lies. In order to cover up her true nature, she engages in more and more challenging criminal acts, the last of which brings about true disaster.
Warmly received by critics and readers alike, Tiger is a touching, urgent, partly biographical, story about growing up in the seventies with a great secret in a small town. Lodalen writes boldly and in a direct language about the sexual awakening of a young girl in a society where homosexuality was regarded as extremely abnormal, almost illegal. But above all, Tiger is a sensitive portrait of love and loneliness. Connie and her friends are all flesh and blood, and Lodalen balances brilliantly between the dark and painful and warm and humorous. Praise for Tiger: Lodalen’s prose is brisk, bold and naïve, however, behind the cocky teenage jargon, the nicknames and the apt descriptions of the praised time of the clog, you sense an immense pain and vulnerability, that are only being boxed aside by Lodalen’s impeccable sense of humour. Nerikes Allehanda [in Tiger] you can only rejoice that Lodalen hits the mark in respect of language, tone, emotions, and, above all, in her portrait of the girls’ sexuality. Göteborgsposten Utländska förlag: Sweden Forum |
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