Used book – A Question Mark Is Half a Heart, Sofia Lundberg

Elin is immensely successful as a fashion photographer in New York. She lives alone with her husband in a superb loft with a panoramic terrace since their daughter started university. In the eyes of her family, she devotes too many hours to her profession, but Elin is passionate and finds happiness in it.

Then, a letter from Sweden, her home country that she left behind a long time ago, strikes her like lightning. In a few words, she is plunged back into a terrible secret buried since childhood. A secret that has made her feel guilty for years.

Between Manhattan today and Gotland in the 1970s, where Elin experienced very harsh early years, unfolds the moving portrait of a woman who built herself up despite a thousand pitfalls. With great finesse, and a skillful way of distilling emotion on every page, Sofia Lundberg delivers a magnificent second novel here.

Translated from Swedish by Caroline Berg.