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PRAISE FOR MY STREET: A CHRISTMAS STORY:
"Bohman’s latest (after Mount Verity, 2026) is a gentle, short, low-stakes work that blends truth and fiction...The reader is left wondering, like Therese, where on Earth her friends went, but the answers are never given, and the reader can only consider what the quirky, somewhat ethereal episode means to them and draw their own conclusions from it."—BOOKLIST
"In her latest work to be translated to English by Delargy, Swedish journalist and novelist Bohman (Mount Verity; Andromeda) recreates and embellishes an episode of several months in 1997 with rueful delight...Calm yet stimulating, Bohman’s holiday tale excels in building Therese’s emotional environment while describing her special street and its residents with sensitive precision."—LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Therese Bohman’s writing is entrancing and sparse and this story of unexpected friendship will stay with you—set in Stockholm in the winter, what more could you ask for in a winter read.”—PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LIBRARY
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An unexpected friendship changes the life of a lonely young woman in Stockholm. Timed for the holidays, this is the perfect gift, arriving in a gorgeous package, for fans of Jon Fosse and Jenny Erpenbeck, anyone looking to escape into a Christmas read charged with a dark undertone and long-time and new readers of Bohman alike.
Therese has just left the safety of her childhood home to begin a new life at Stockholm University. Her days are filled with nervousness, expectation, and loneliness. She rents a small room in the outskirts of the city, tries to carve out a place for herself in its vastness, and feels invisible in the lecture halls.
Everything changes when she meets Andreas. He dresses in black and carries himself with a blasé confidence. He also opens the door to another Stockholm, a world of literary fanzines, smoke-filled cafés, and late nights in an apartment on Kammakar Street. In the quiet, understated mystery between the city’s crowded throughfares and Kammakar Street’s desolation, a friendship begins to take shape, one that will come to define her life in many ways. I hope to be in touch with you about this atmospheric tale of newfound friendship that is part truth, part invention, and woven with Bohman’s enchanting prose.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Therese Bohman grew up outside of Norrköping and now lives in Stockholm. Her debut novel, Drowned, received critical acclaim both in Sweden and internationally, and was selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. Her second novel, The Other Woman (Other Press, 2014), was short-listed for the Nordic Council Prize and Swedish Radio’s Fiction Prize, while her third novel, Eventide (Other Press, 2016), was short-listed for Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, the August Prize.
Her fourth novel Andromeda was published by Other Press in 2025.
Bohman is an arts journalist who regularly contributes to one of Sweden’s largest newspapers, Expressen.
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ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR:
Marlaine Delargy studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and she taught German for almost twenty years.
She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson; Helene Tursten; John Ajvide Lindqvist; Therese Bohman; Theodor Kallifatides; Johan Theorin, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010; and Henning Mankell, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2018.
Marlaine has also translated nine books in Viveca Sten’s Sandhamn Murders series and two books in her Åre Murders series.
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