Body Double

‘Hanna Johansson is Hitchcock-like … She puts her reader in a state of constant tension … Reading Body Double is like following a game of cups and balls with concentration, letting your eyes focus on the cup under which you think the ball is hiding … The dizzying uncertainty contributes to the strange atmosphere of a novel in which Hanna Johansson raises the stakes considerably and leads the reader into an intricately constructed hall of mirrors of exquisite prose.’

* Svenska Dagbladet *

‘The first thing I want to do after finishing Hanna Johansson’s second novel is to read it again … Body Double is not only a masterful novel in the footsteps of the film, it is a story about loneliness and about being created in someone else’s eyes. But also about what remains in the absence of that person.’

* Aftonbladet *

‘An incredibly successful thriller in the spirit of Hitchcock … Stylistically, Johansson works with repetition, displacement, confusion, and resolution. A coat temporarily changes hands — and everything is thrown into turmoil. It is incredibly well done from beginning to end.’

* Göteborgs-Posten *

Praise for Antiquity:

‘Elegantly translated … [Antiquity] sets up a literary conversation with works such as Death in Venice and Nabokov’s Lolita. Like those novels, plot is secondary to the meticulous creation of a predator’s interior landscape. And the narrator of Antiquity is as compelling a problem as Humbert Humbert or Aschenbach – as with them, power and responsibility are inverted and sublimated into diaphanous aesthetics, confronting the reader with pointed questions about the nature of beauty, and of art’s power to do harm.’

-- Cameron Woodhead * The Sydney Morning Herald *

Praise for Antiquity:

‘Hanna Johansson writes with astonishing precision … her ability to articulate feeling and sensation, both mental and physical, is unmatched. … [Antiquity] takes you slowly through a summer, and, despite yourself, you will let your feet drag and fix your eyes on the fascinatingly terrible thing in front of you.’

* Readings *

Praise for Antiquity:

‘A wonderful novel written with the menacing elegance of a cat burglar working in the shadows and at great heights.’

-- Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X<