REKVIEM FÖR EN MOR – REQUIEM FOR A MOTHER
By Elisabeth Åsbrink
REQUIEM FOR A MOTHER is Elisabeth Åsbrink’s mourning diary. A book about grieving a mother and a relationship strained by conflict and tensions, but also of acknowledging moments of deep connection.
IN SHORT PASSAGES – sometimes only a single sentence – emotions of loss, relief, anger, and tenderness are woven together.
A REQUIEM IS a mass for the dead, derived from the Latin requies, meaning rest, repose. And it is this longing for something to come to rest as well as finding peace oneself, that characterises Elisabeth Åsbrink’s condensed prose.
“The spring is cautious. Knowing how much you would have enjoyed it makes me cry. You have become ashes in a green urn that will break down and dissolve, leaving a void in the clay soil, partly filled with dust.”
ABOUT THE BOOK
To be published by Polaris, Sweden 2025
RIGHTS SOLD
Swedish, Polaris
REVIEWS
I really like Requiem For A Mother; how it shows the more raw and unsentimental sides of grief.
– Expressen, Sweden
[…] Åsbrink’s portrayal of the interplay between grief and anger is both poignant and thought-provoking.
– Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
Requiem For A Mother is a small book, only 112 pages long, but very rich in content, at once dense and spacious.
– Göteborgs Posten, Sweden
BOOKS
Non-Fiction
