pickAxel Borg is appointed as commissioner for a fishery on a remote island; the only person of intelligence and learning on the island. Told solely from his point of view, he is a sympathetic and yet insufferable genius. But the novel is odd. Through Borg it has phases - his character shifts from one type of person to another and I am not sure his breakdown makes sense. The best part of the novel was the descriptions of the small islands and the sea.
I have enjoyed a few days in Stockholm on my first visit to Sweden. No posts from Lithuania or Latvia because I couldnt find any authors on the 1001 list.#backpackEurope @JenP @bookwormM
so-soThis is a rather complicated book about a civil servant who comes inspect fishing in a remote Swedish fishing village. Local fishermen are not happy with his arrival and the inspector thrives in his forced isolation until, successively, a young woman and her mother, a pastor and an assistant arrive in the village. What follows is a psychological game, described from the perspective of the officer. The end, of course, can not be happy. #1001books
By the Open Sea | 
This was my May #BookSpin. 3y