Wreckage Shore

Elin Bengtsson

Sam lives in the small coastal community of Marösund with her grandmother and grandfather, along with a cat that can swim across the sea that separates the living from the dead. In the house, there is also Lina’s old teenage room that none of them enter. When Lau, a year older than Sam, comes to Marösund for a summer job and moves into the closed room, family secrets are brought to light, and the two youths begin to unravel the silence surrounding Sam’s background. Their search takes them to Barcelona in pursuit of the Catalan boy – he who was driving the moped that crashed that summer evening sixteen years ago.

Wreckage Shore is a novel about inheritance and place, about trying to fill in the blanks of one’s story, about the wreckage shores of the dead, and those within us who are alive.

Elin Bengtsson is an author and researcher in gender studies. At Natur & Kultur she has previously published Between Winter and Heaven (2013) and Land of the Ferns (2016), which was nominated for both the August Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Written about Land of the Ferns (2016):

“Elin Bengtsson has written an extremely strong novel that remains under the skin, at the roots of what is to be human.” Dagens Nyheter

“It is exciting, touching, insightful, linguistically elegant, well, really very good.” Borås Tidning

“With a poetic and symbolic language she widens and challenges one’s view on sexuality and what kind of love can and cannot exist” The August Prize Jury’s motivation

Written about Elin Bengtsson’s debut Between Winter and Heaven  (2013):

”Arguably one of this year’s strongest YA novels” Smålandsposten

”(…) passages that are so painfully beautiful that they make you gasp for breath” Svenska Dagbladet