The Helios Disaster

Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in Translated Fiction This powerful portrait of mental illness and modern spin on the myth of Athena portrays the mind of a girl in foster care confined to a small Swedish town. Linda Bostrom Knausgaard was married to the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the highest-selling European authors in English translation, until November 2016. They lived in Sweden and have four children together. They still edit each other's work. In an interview with The Times (UK), Linda says "I married the world's most indiscreet man." The Helios Disaster is a portrait of mental illness. Linda herself struggles with bipolar disorder, a fact chronicled in detail in Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical series My Struggle, in which Linda suffers a nervous breakdown from having been written about too much. We are building on the publication of Welcome to America, Linda's first novel to publish in the US. Translation by Minneapolis-based translator Rachel Willson-Broyles

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