“The publishing house sits like a ship anchored in the middle of town, a large, bright building crowned by a roof terrace. The facade is a grid of wood and granite, flags with a squiggly but definite R on them wave in the wind. R as in Rydéns.”A young woman comes to the publishing house as an intern but stays for many years and is given increasing responsibility for the authors and the publishing house’s publications. All under the supervision of Gunnar, the literary manager who is behind the publishing house’s finest publication, the one published under the name Andromeda.Over the years, their working relationship grows into something that they both have difficulty defining. Maybe it’s about mutual trust? Or is it actually about something else?Therese Bohman’s novel is set in Stockholm and unfolds into a story about tradition and modernity, hopes and disappointments, idealism and stark reality.
