The Fly Trap

Fredrik Sjberg''s Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.br>br>''The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?''br>br>Fredrik Sjberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This beguiling bestseller is his unique meditation on collecting hoverflies. It is also about living on a remote Swedish island, blissful long summer nights, lost loves, unexpected treasures, art, nature, slowness, and how freedom can come from the things we least expect.br>br>''Full of charm, a book about how to find meaning in life'' Melissa Harrison, The Times, Books of the Yearbr>br>''I often return to The Fly Trap, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature that reveal sudden insights into one''s life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me'' Tomas Transtrmer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literaturebr>br>''Charming, witty and original'' Patrick Barkham, Guardian br>br>''Nature writing that can laugh at itself, a real tonic'' Gregory Day, Sydney Morning Heraldbr>br>''Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive . . . a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjberg writes with infectious passion'' Paul Binding Independentbr>br>Fredrik Sjberg collects hoverflies on the island Runmar, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books including The Art of Flight and The Raisin King, which form a trilogy with The Fly Trap.>

Product details

• Authors: Fredrik Sjoberg, Fredrik Sjöberg, SJOBERG FREDERIK, Fredrik Sjoeberg
• Assisted by: Thomas Teal (Translation), Teal Thomas (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9781846147784
• ISBN: 978-1-84614-778-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Nature; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, Literary essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs