Elin Willows' popular debut Inlands explores the emotional journey of a young woman who leaves behind her life in Stockholm and finds herself in a new place, at the edge of the Arctic Circle. Overwhelmed by nature's magnitude and the simplicity and strangeness of her new life, she searches for a new identity and for ways to overcome her feelings of alienation. Rather than returning to the known (Stockholm, her friends and family) she chooses to stay and struggles to adapt to its new customs. It is a story about loss and change and examines the tangible mechanics of everyday life, the mentality of a small community and the relationship between freedom and loneliness in the alternating endless sunlight and bitter cold of the Swedish seasons.
Translated from the Swedish by Duncan J. Lewis.
