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Blackwater

By: Kerstin Ekman

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Blackwater

By: Kerstin Ekman

As she walks through the forest outside a remote Swedish village in 1974, a woman stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly 20 years.

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Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0312152477

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9780312152475

The Dog

By: Kerstin Ekman

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In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the safe haven of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle for survival in the wild. Suddenly, he must find food and a safe place to sleep, and outwit his competitor, the fox. The puppy becomes wild himself, trusting no human and furiously fighting the hunting dogs that enter his domain. But one man is intrigued by the now-unruly dog and very slowly begins to gain his trust. Each day he visits the dog, bringing food and awakening memories of his distant domestic past. The lost relationship between man and dog is rebuilt in this sensitive and intelligent story about the true nature of trust and friendship.

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Virago

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0748111190

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The Spring

By: Kerstin Ekman

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The Spring

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Kerstin Ekman's novel Blackwater took the world by storm in 1993 and has now been translated into over twenty-five languages. But her reputation as one of Sweden's best-known and most successful authors rests just as securely upon the series of four novels she wrote between 1974 and 1983, which are based on the author's childhood home town of Katrineholm some forty miles southwest of Stockholm. The first of these, Witches' Rings portrays the final years of the nineteenth century in a small urban community on the cusp of industrialisation. The Spring, which focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, moves the story on from the early twentieth century to the interwar years. According to Ekman herself, two major socio-psychological studies carried out in Katrineholm indicate 'that this was a community with which its inhabitants were content... I have devoted eleven years of my life to maintaining the exact opposite.' This is accomplished in a narrative of great subtlety and compelling power; once again Kerstin Ekman recreates the past with an authenticity that resonates urgently in the present.

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1909408573

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9781909408579

Blackwater

By: Kerstin Ekman

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Blackwater

By: Kerstin Ekman

As she walks through the forest outside a remote Swedish village in 1974, a woman stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly 20 years.

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Macmillan

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God's Mercy

By: Kerstin Ekman

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God's Mercy

By: Kerstin Ekman

When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is ill prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated territory, she encounters the overwhelming and unpredictable forces of nature and demoralizing poverty and ignorance while also gaining access to the unfamiliar world of nomadic Sami reindeer herders. A single traumatic event, never fully confronted, has devastating and far-reaching repercussions, but Hillevi also finds unexpected warmth and love. Incorporating elements of the jojk oral tradition of Sami culture, God’s Mercy is a thoroughly engrossing story about the capriciousness of memory, the resilience of the human psyche, and the endless wonder of the wild.

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400

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803210744

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9780803210745

The Dog

By: Kerstin Ekman

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The Dog

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Witches' Rings

By: Ekman Kerstin

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Witches' Rings

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Stories," the narrator of Witches' Rings tells us, "are wiser than we, and more mindful, and slowly they change us." Kerstin Ekman's stories are deeply committed to this very kind of gradual but inevitable change. Witches' Rings portrays the history of a rural society in a new light, tracing its development through the lives of working class women and children rather than authorities and decision-makers. The central character is a woman so anonymous that her name is not even mentioned on her gravestone. This novel, written in 1974, is the first volume of a tetralogy which follows a Swedish community through a hundred years of recent history to the present day. Kerstin Ekman (b. 1933) has often been described as the most prominent living Swedish novelist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters from 1978 to 1989 and has received several major literary prizes, including the Selma Lagerlöf prize in 1989.

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1909408565

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9781909408562

Landscape of Peace

Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia

By: Kerstin J. S. Werle

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Landscape of Peace

Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia

By: Kerstin J. S. Werle

Kerstin Werle’s work is based upon a year of fieldwork on Lamotrek and Yap, belonging to a group of islands with a matrilineal culture. Although a trend to the lifestyle of the Western world can be found everywhere on the islands, traditional customs, a gendered division of labour and subsistence techniques prevail. Kerstin Werle carried out her research according to classical anthropological methods, supplementing the available specialist literature on the widespread Micronesian atolls with a valuable overview. Her book shows how the ideal of an old and wise woman, contained in the cultural symbol lavalava, is faced with a young society. Due to the extremely limited space on the small atolls, individual plots of land have become historically, culturally and emotionally significant places, all of which have been ascribed their own individual character. With the help of these personalized places, people on Lamotrek pursue local politics.

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240

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Springer

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ISBN 10

3658058323

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9783658058326

Swedish Crime Fiction

The Making of Nordic Noir

By: Kerstin Bergman

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Swedish Crime Fiction

The Making of Nordic Noir

By: Kerstin Bergman

Why have authors from the safe, social welfare state Sweden captivated the minds of the crime fiction readers across the globe? Kerstin Bergman suggests that killer marketing and a widespread curiosityabout the “exotic” Nordic welfare states, their waste landscapes and alleged gender equality, has propelled these authors and novels into the international spotlight. Bergman uses this innovative angle to retell the recent history of crime fiction in Sweden, exploring central themes and selecting key authors that have garnered national and international acclaim for their lethal plots. Swedish Crime Fiction: The Making of Nordic Noir contextualizes the explosive recent history of the genre, offering newcomers and aficionados insights into the minds of protagonists and their literary creators. This is the first research-based and exhaustive presentation of Swedish crime fiction and its Nordic “neighbours” to an international audience.

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140

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Mimesis

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8857524302

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9788857524306

Under the Snow

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Under the Snow

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A crime novel about the murder of two people in Lapland during the winter.

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180

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Random House (UK)

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0099751615

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9780099751618

The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change

A Policy Network Analysis of a Southeast Asian Welfare Regime

By: Kerstin Priwitzer

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The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change

A Policy Network Analysis of a Southeast Asian Welfare Regime

By: Kerstin Priwitzer

Within the last twenty years a large-scale bottom-up privatization has taken place in Vietnam, changing and dismantling the public health care system. This process has led to severe tensions inherent in the transitional society of Vietnam between equity and access to health care support - especially for the poor, elderly, migrants, and ethnic minorities - on the one hand, and its efficiency on the other hand. The book traces the reform efforts to modernize the health care system by the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government. The author bases her findings on little known primary literature and interviews with key stakeholders of the policy network involved in the reform of the health care system, thereby painting an authentic atmospheric picture of the profound changes in the health care system in Vietnam.

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397

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9814345687

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9789814345682

Symptom Fluctuation in Fibromyalgia

Environmental, Psychological and Psychobiological Influences

By: Kerstin Wentz

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Symptom Fluctuation in Fibromyalgia

Environmental, Psychological and Psychobiological Influences

By: Kerstin Wentz

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome of wide spread pain that is known from all parts of the world. An aspect of the syndrome of fibromyalgia is fluctuation as in onset of pain, variation in the level of symptoms, time off from pain and recovery from pain and other symptoms. The analysis of these fluctuations might create a basis for solid suggestions regarding the nature of the syn-drome itself. E.g. the pain level is well known to vary with mental and physical load including exposure to cold. Simultaneously, fibromyalgia has been found to mean an altered balance in the autonomic nervous system. In the first section of the book a developmental stage or life before fibromyalgia is covered. Intra- and interpersonal patterns based on narrations of the afflicted are pictured. Identified patterns are psychometrically examined and environmental as well as psychobiological patterns are accounted for. In the mid-section of the book life with fibromyalgia is scrutinized including biomarkers. Patterns regarding variation in the level of pain, gaps in fibromyalgia pain and environmental factors influencing these gaps are related. The effect on life, symptoms and defense measures is elucidated from the angle of mental load. The last sections portrait psychological and environmental influences concerning recovery, but especially the striking phenomenon of recovery being scarce. Special attention is paid to cognitive-emotional functioning, the need to target dissociation and environmental influences on maintenance.

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196

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110313804

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9783110313802

Schwindlerinnen

Roman

By: Kerstin Ekman

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Schwindlerinnen

Roman

By: Kerstin Ekman

Lillemor Troj, die gefeierte 80-jährige Schriftstellerin, sitzt bei ihrem verblüfften Verleger: Er will nicht glauben, dass sie einen Unterhaltungsromanvorgelegt hat. Lillemor selbst aber kennt das Manuskript noch gar nicht –denn wieder hat es ihre jahrzehntelange Freundin Babba geschrieben, wie alle anderen Bücher auch. Nur diesmal enthält es die ungeschminkte, boshafte Wahrheit über die große Autorin Lillemor Troj. Es ist die Geschichte der beiden Frauen, ihrer Schwächen und Verletzungen – und natürlich ist es die Chronik ihres großen Betrugs ...Kerstin Ekman nimmt sich selbst und die vornehme Welt der Literatur aufs Korn, wenn sie von der großen Abrechnung der beiden Frauen erzählt, von Aufrichtigkeit und Lügen, Einsamkeit und Nähe, Einbildung und Wirklichkeit.

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399

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Piper Verlag

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3492958443

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9783492958448

Das Engelhaus

Roman

By: Kerstin Ekman

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Das Engelhaus

Roman

By: Kerstin Ekman

Das Engelhaus' ist das Haus, in dem Tora Otter, dem Leser schon aus 'Hexenringe' und 'Springquelle' bekannt, vom Beginn der dreißiger Jahre an bis in die ersten Nachkriegsjahre wohnt. Tora Otter kämpft inzwischen mit dem Herannahen des Alters. Schwer kann sie sich an den Gedanken gewöhnen, daß ihr Körper, der ihr bisher nur selbstverständliches Arbeitsgerät und Fortbewegungsmittel war, zunehmend schwächer wird. In ihrer schlaflosen Einsamkeit kriecht sie die Angst vor dem Tode an, und sie beginnt, ihr bisheriges Leben kritisch zu überdenken. Tora Otter und das 'Engelhaus' spielen auch für die heranwachsende Ingrid, die Tochter von Toras Freundin, eine große Rolle. Sie träumt bereits in ihrer Jugend von einem Leben frei von den Sorgen des Alltags. Bald aber, als sie schwanger wird, einen Sohn gebärt und das ganz normale Familienleben einer Erwachsenen führt, muß sie feststellen, daß sie nicht die Kraft hatte, ihre Träume wahr werden zu lassen. Auch Jenny Otter, Toras Schwiegertochter, fühlt sich in ihrer Ehe nicht wohl. Schwer liegt auf ihr die ganze Verantwortung für die Versorgung der Familie. Aus Sehnsucht nach dem 'wirklichen Leben' beginnt sie ein Verhältnis mit einem jüdischen Flüchtling aus Ungarn...

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387

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Piper Verlag

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3492957587

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Book's by Kerstin Ekman

Blackwater

Blackwater

The Dog

The Dog

The Spring

The Spring

Blackwater

Blackwater

God's Mercy

God's Mercy

The Dog

The Dog

Witches' Rings

Witches' Rings

Landscape of Peace

Landscape of Peace

Swedish Crime Fiction

Swedish Crime Fiction

Under the Snow

Under the Snow

The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change

The Vietnamese Health Care System in Change

Symptom Fluctuation in Fibromyalgia

Symptom Fluctuation in Fibromyalgia

Schwindlerinnen

Schwindlerinnen

Das Engelhaus

Das Engelhaus

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