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The Gravity of Love mostly takes place at Beckomberga, a psychiatric hospital in the suburbs of Stockholm where the nice, funny and popular Jimmie is treated after several attempts of suicide. One day, he will succeed to swallow a fistful of pills, wash them down with whiskey and swim into the Atlantic, he explains to his daughter Jackie who spends more and more time visiting him at the hospital. Soon, the building with its patients and personnel start melting into almost magical scenes which become her whole world. The Gravity of Love is a gentle, lyrical story about family, growing up, sadness and the understanding of the world which leads to the discovery that the strongest love can also be the heaviest burden.

Sara Stridsberg (1972) is one of the best contemporary Swedish writers, renowned at home and abroad. Last year, her novel Valerie was nominated for the international Man Booker Prize and for her novel The Gravity of Love, she received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2015 as well as several Swedish literary awards. A year later, she became the tenth woman in history the youngest member of the Swedish Academy, from which she exited two years later. Her novel Valerie was chosen as the best Swedish novel of the decade by Swedish critics. Swedish critics also labeled The Gravity of Love as The Magic Mountain of our time and it is translated into almost 30 languages, now also Slovenian.