Best debut of 2017 according to the Swedish Academy of Detective Writers.
This gripping, witty, and incredibly beautiful book about the dark times of Stockholm’s life, with a tightly twisted criminal plot and detailed descriptions of the city’s life of the 18th century based on historical documents, made the debut author Naklas Natt-o-Dag, a descendant of an ancient noble family, famous. His book is compared to Patrick Süskind’s “Perfume” and to Milorad Pavić’s novels. “1793” became a bestseller in Sweden, and just a week after publication—worldwide.
There had never been a harsher winter than in 1793 in Stockholm. Four years after the storming of the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III, paranoia and conspiracies fill the streets of the Swedish capital. Animal terror dissolved in the air creeps into every dirty back alley when in the water they find a disfigured body, and the investigation uncovers the most horrifying details of the hidden life of the Swedish elite. A magnificent novel that is read in one breath. If you want to cry, that’s normal.