Sleet: Selected Stories

A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion.”—Graham Greene

This collection includes a number of new translations, never before published in English, unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Often narrated from a child’s perspective, the stories give voice to receptiveness and joy tinged with longing and loneliness.

Alice McDermott w...