YOUR NEW STAR SIGN

DITT NYA STJÄRNTECKEN – YOUR NEW STAR SIGN

By Jonas Karlsson

IN JONAS KARLSSON’S short story collection Your New Star Sign, we meet, among many others, a recently separated man who one day suddenly starts receiving imperative messages from the spines of books in his flat; work colleagues whose roles in the group change during a joint cottage holiday; and a man who discovers that the public emergency alarm has changed key. And then we get to read about a lost hat at Härnösand train station.

WITH HIS USUAL combination of humour and seriousness, Jonas Karlsson writes about human shortcomings. About individuals and existences at odds with themselves. If it’s not their self-image, it’s their surroundings that mess things up. Or their fixed ideas.