Purity

‘Purity is a strong, challenging book, emotionally charged, intricate and ceaselessly fascinating, poetic and tender, even humorous in its dark way, through all its roughness, deep grief, blood and grime.’ Aftonbladet

‘When Tichý combines his concrete social realism with a slip into hypnotic stream of consciousness, it become completely brilliant. Tichý writes interpersonal tenderness and love just as sharply as he depicts pain, and powerful resistance.’ Göteborgs-Posten

‘A feverish kind of despair about the eternal machine that is the abuse of power thrusts Tichý’s disparate voices into an affecting whole.’ Svenska Dagbladet

‘As in all his best books, Tichý is an entertainer. Funny and drastic, smart and tough, without ever letting the tragedy become comedy. It is the style, between elegant novelistic prose and the colloquial, that lends these fragmentary stories a glint of something almost cheerful; the laughter when, staring into the abyss, you realise it is staring right back at you.’ Expressen

‘How something can be simultaneously so powerful and so precise is hard to comprehend. But as a depiction of human existence in today’s evermore precarious labour market, it is brilliant. The truth is that it’s rare to find literary prose, or for that matter political criticism, as refined as this.’ Dagens Nyheter