Windflowers and Piss Rats

Oskar Kroon & Hanna Klinthage

I think pretty often about the rats. Both the real ones who scurried over the old toasters and clutter, and the others. The piss rats, who ruined the life of the only ones who truly dared to be themselves. Let me tell you about Krister. My brother. Let me tell you what happened that horrible winter.

Kaj loves his older brother Krister. He knows so much. About space, robots and parallel universes. About taking the right bus and finding the best stuff at the dump. Krister dares to be himself. Or rather, it’s that he doesn’t know how to be anything else. He is who he is. But it causes problems. Like that thing with Zack, for example. Finally, Kaj cannot watch any longer, he has to do something. He has to save Krister.

Oskar Kroon is back with a sensitive and moving story about siblings and vulnerability.

Press voices

“A novel that really feels from the first moment (…) fine-tuned and rock-hard at the same time, with a clear nerve that drives the reading forward. It feels both timeless and completely new. Have I ever read anything about what it is like to be the sibling of someone who is bullied? Not anything like this anyway.” Lisa Bjärbo & Johanna Lindbäck, Vi läser

“This is an amazingly heartbreaking story and very beautifully illustrated.” Johanna Lundin, Aftonbladet

“Oskar Kroon is one of our best storytellers for children’s books. Oskar Kroon has an ability to colour everyday deceptions with a helpless melancholy. (…) he is the absolute best when he writes for the beginners, like in this years August winner “Windflowers and Piss Rats”” Lotta Olsson, Dagens Nyheter

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