In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

by Tom Malmquist

Henning Koch (Translator)

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Chosen by the New York Times as one of the "Notable Books of 2018"

Chosen by El PaĆ­s as one of this past decade's nine best novels about life and death


The prize-winning, bestselling tale of love, loss, family and the lives we live moment by moment, from a stunning new voice in European fiction.

Tom's heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to hospital with severe flu. While the doctors are able to save the baby, they are helpless in the face of what transpires to be acute Leukemia, and in a moment as fleeting as it is cruel Tom gains a daughter but loses his soul-mate. In Every Moment is the story of a year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury of bereavement with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone.

By turns tragic and redemptive, meditative and breathless, achingly poignant and darkly funny, this heavily autobiographical novel has been described in its native Sweden as 'hypnotic', 'impossible to resist' and 'one of the most powerful books about grief ever written'.

  • ISBN10 1473640008
  • ISBN13 9781473640009
  • Publish Date 1 June 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Sceptre
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English