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Fiction
Axel Lindén
Counting Sheep
My 1021 Days in the Field
10th of July
‘Narrow paths appear across the fields. The sheep follow one an-
other so as not to trample the pasture. I would never have
thought of that.’
’…there is something absolutely sacred in the atmosphere in Axel Lindén’s Rights Sold
Danish: Turbine
COUNTING SHEEP… What should one call this kind of book? Neo- English (UK & Com): Quercus
English (NA): Atria Books
Pastoral? Post-urban? Retreat-novel?’ —Dagens Nyheter German: Ullstein Buchverlage
Korean: Simple Life
Spanish (World): Ediciones B
‘A gem of a book that creates poetry out of sheep keeping.’ —UNT
Publication
Albert Bonniers Förlag
‘The best thing I’ve read in a long time.’ — Borås Tidning October 2017
135 pages
Material
Swedish Finished Copies
Full English Translation
Author Q&A
“Sheepies” (Sheep Selfies)
Axel Lindén (b. 1972) lives on a remote farm in Sweden with his family. Contact
Amanda Bértolo Alderin
COUNTING SHEEP is his debut.
amanda.bertolo.alderin@bonnierrights.se
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