Gentlemen - Hard cover

In September 1980, something happened that would influence a generation of readers for a long time to come. A novel about a young writer living a bohemian life with two eccentric brothers in a huge apartment in Södermalm in Stockholm was published, and the critical success and thus the breakthrough were immediate.

Gentlemen was hailed as a story where concepts such as style and entertainment were important parts of the presentation, and it was read as a liberation from an ideologized and moralizing seventies. But the tone of the novel is dark, painting a picture of Sweden as a country of cover-ups, and paralyzed by a big financial gangster mentality. There is a social spirit here that arouses a justified sense of paranoia and fear in its citizens, a tone that sounds ominous throughout Klas Östergren's trilogy.