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Dec 2, 2004

Heart's Delight, Per Nilsson

This is the first novel translated into English from a man in Sweden. A movie playing in the mind of a young man who is trying to destroy every trace of a relationship he felt was fake. He had met a girl on the long bus ride through the city to school. When she sits next to him one day and they talk, she accidentally forgets her German book, so, of course he has to return it to her. When he arrives at Ann-Katrin's apartment he finds that the fresh, lemon-y smell that follows her everywhere is from the many plants of lemon balm, or heart's delight, that she keeps on her windowsill. After this their friendship flowers and he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with her.
When he leaves to go to a summer in America all he can think of is Ann-Katrin, or as he has started calling her, Heart's Delight. He fills notebooks with thoughts of her, and writes about 14 letters to her in a month. When he gets back the first thing he does after dropping off his luggage is go to her apartment to see her again, and give her a gift. What he finds when he gets there is another thing...

On the night of her return from a vacation with her father he struggles with the ultimate decision -- is life worth-it if he can't have her? He destroys all remenants of their relationship and is preparing to say good-bye to the world, but will he be able to do it?

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