Cigarette
- Schrijver: Per Hagman (Zweden)
- Soort boek: Zweedse roman
- Origineel: Cigarett (1991)
- Engelse vertaling: Elinor Fahrman
- Uitgever: Nordisk Books
- Verschijnt: 28 april 2022
- Omvang: 160 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Boek bestellen bij: Boekhandel
Flaptekst van de debuutroman uit 1991 van Per Hagman
Stockholm. Early summer, 1989. Johan is a young waiter working at the Hard Rock Cafe. His nights are filled with parties, drugs, booze and MTV. An endless chase of the next girl, the next high… the next music video.
The drink, drugs and sex of Stockholm’s nightlife in the late 1980s, seen through the eyes of a young bartender at the place to be at the time, Hard Rock Cafe. Filled with the mania, longing, electricity and emptiness of living in a big city in your 20s, Hagman’s début novel is a true Nordic cult classic and we are thrilled to be bringing it to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Originally published in 1991, its raw energy captured the imagination of a whole generation of youth and Hagman has remained a much-loved figure in his home country ever since, occasionally referred to as both the world’s oldest teenager and youngest pensioner, and having gone on to complement Cigarette with two more works that form a loose trilogy.
The first book in a loose trilogy, when Cigarette was first published in Sweden it heralded the arrival of a bold new voice in contemporary nordic literature. A troubadour of 80s and 90s metropolitan nightlife, Nordisk Books is delighted to publish Per Hagman’s electric debut in English for the first time, thanks to Elinor Fahrman’s brilliant translation.