Stockholm Noir

Ингер Эдельфельдт, Юхан Теорин, Ингер Фриманссон, Оке Эдвардсон, Lina Wolff, Rika Lesser, Laura A. Wideburg, Caroline Åberg, Carl Johan De Geer, Unni Drougge, Carl-Michael Edenborg, Torbjörn Elensky, Martin Holmén, Nathan Larson, Malte Persson, Kerri Pierce, Anna-Karin Selberg

Серия: Akashic Noir

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To the tourist, the city of Stockholm appears a shimmering dream. Laid out on a series of islands, it is verdant, clean, and surrounded by crystalline water. On paper, Stockholm is paradise. And in some respects, it truly is. But in most respects, it is anything but.

While Stockholm is Sweden’s capital, crown jewel, and the seat of its monarchy, it’s impossible to understand the city without taking a closer look at the country as a whole. Its citizens are largely happy to prop each other up, paying taxes into a theoretically fantastic system of free health care, education, generous maternal and paternal leave, an expectation of six-to-eight-weeks paid annual vacation. Culture and the arts are valued and heavily subsidized. Government-sponsored graffiti contests, concerts, crafts fairs, and municipal skate parks abound. If born into this system, you can expect a very high standard of living.

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