A novel seen through the eyes of Axel, a boy whose grandfather seems trapped outside time during one summer. In the bright light of the Swedish summer, humor and unease about memory and aging overlap.

The scenes of summer become a maze of memory.

A large anthology of texts and images from Swedish intellectual history, arranged so that readers can move across periods and themes. It is scholarly in ambition but still open to general readers.

A readable cross-section of Swedish intellectual history.