Karin Brunk Holmqvist

The Potency Givers

(Potensgivarna)

A hilarious and heartwarming book about the Svensson sisters, who live a quiet and regular life in their parents’ old house in a small village in the south of Sweden. They cook jam, bake wonderful cakes, go to church and make nice broderies. Year after year. But one day they get a new neighbour, the charming Deputy Director, Alvar Klemens, and life gets a new meaning. The thrifty sisters buy new dresses in the nearby town, they invite their neighbour for coffee and in the evenings, they open their special cup board for drinks both once and twice a week.

One day, when Tilda and Elida sit in their garden, they see how a neighbourhood-cat with an enormous sexual enthusiasm courts his girl friend. What had happened to the cat? Just before the passionate encounter, the cat had eaten from the neighbour’s flowerpot containing a special plant.

Now the sisters get a brilliant idea how to earn some money so that they can install a water closet inside the house instead of the old dry privy. They get into the viagra and potency strengthening business in their own special way....

This is a charming and funny book, reminding us about old times, not far away from the modern, urban stressful live of today, and about the cultural confrontations between old and new in society.

197 pages

Rights sold to: Germany (Piper Verlag), Denmark (Cicero), Norway (Silke)

Film options have been sold, audio book has been released in Sweden in 2006 (Story Side).