IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
I ett annat land

 “Did they keep you as a prisoner? But you are only .....a child. Almost a child”. Aleks opened his eyes. The summer sun was broiling in the farmyard and the fields. He felt the heat against his skin. It hurt to see Lisa’s horrified face. The contrasts are too big, he thought. The contrasts between all the beautiful things around him and the horrible things that he had experienced. How would he ever find harmony between these two extremes. “Those are evil men, he explained. They don’t care. For them it doesn’t matter if you are a child, a grown up or very old. “

Aleks has escaped with his family from a war stricken European country. They live in a refugee centre in the idyllic countryside of Sweden waiting for their permanent residence permit. Aleks is tormented by horrible memories from the war. His best friend Soran was brutally killed in front of his eyes. And he had to kill his beloved dog Mir by his own hand, since the dog was badly injured by one of Aleks’s torturers.

How does a young boy manage to survive and find his way back to life again – to a  life where you are true to yourself and to those who care? 

In another country was published by Kabusa böcker in 2006.

This is extraordinary skillful…It is a book that awakens many political and ethical questions but it also shows that the storytelling, the listening and also the reading is driven by ethics. It is big. Bigger than you believe. Svenska Dagbladet
 
Lindquist’s book is both touching and absorbing.  BTJ

Reviews of Håkan Lindquist’s latest novel, On collecting stamps (Kabusa Böcker 2004)
I am deeply impressed by Håkan Lindquist’s way of creating characters. The secret behind irresistible books lie in each and every formulation and Håkan Lindquist expresses himself extremely well; the book is sensitive and filled with atmosphere, and you find it hard to put away.
Svenska Dagbladet

ON COLLECTING STAMPS
Om att samla frimärken

A story about friendship, stamps, and homosexuality.
Samuel Gunnarsson is a middle-aged gay man. Mattias, a boy soon twelve years old, has just fallen off his new bike. Their first meeting is the beginning of a warm friendship.

“Mattias. It means ‘gift from God’. Did you know that” was the first words Samuel said to Mattias.
Almost thirty years after their first meeting, Mattias returns to attend Samuel’s funeral. Mattias recalls everything that Samuel has told him during the years. About his loneliness and his great and only love, the beautiful sailor, William.

In their old hiding place in the tower of an old church, Mattias finds a letter to him, written by Samuel, to be read after his death. Here Samuel reveals the dreadful secret that has tormented him since he was a little boy.

Other books by the author
My brother and his brother (Min bror och hans bror, 1993) Rabén&Sjögren.
Tiden pocket 2002. 
Sold to: Denmark (Hoest and Soen), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag), Iceland,  (Skjaldborg)
France (Gaia), Greece, (Castor), Hungary (Masculus)
Italy (Edizioni del Cardo)
Belgium (Claves)

Dream to live (Dröm att leva, 1996) Rabén&Sjögren.
Sold to: Denmark (Modtryk) Iceland (Skjaldorg)