Windflowers and Piss Rats

Windflowers and Piss Rats

Oskar Kroon & Hanna Klinthage

Original Title
Vitsippor och pissråttor
Published
Rabén & Sjögren, 2023
Genre
Fiction 6-9
Pages
168 pp
Rights Sold
Italian
Czech
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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.

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“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
Awards
Winner of the August Prize 2023

"The darkness gets on well with the cleverly humorous in Oskar Kroon’s empathetic sibling portrayal. When the idolized older brother is exposed to brutal bullying, the younger brother intuitively accepts the quiet pain and turns it into a creative as well as desperate counterattack. Hanna Klinthage’s delicate drawings perfect the balancing act. In Vitsippor och pissråttor, the severity is given room while the light shines with undiminished strength."