I’m very pleased to announce that I will be releasing my debut novel, Borde vara tacks, on January 10th 2024 on Bazar Förlag.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A warm and sharp depiction of rootlessness and a thorny family relationship.
Mizan and his daughter Nadira are thousands of miles apart – geographically, and culturally. Mizan, stuck in his own patterns in a small town in Sweden, misses his home country, his dead wife and the daughter he no longer understands. After a nervous breakdown, he’s forced to participate in group therapy to learn to look at life from the bright side.
At the same time, in London, Nadira has just dumped her boyfriend. She’s thirty, homeless, and doesn’t even own her own cutlery. When Nadira meets Camilla, she realizes that the life she wants to live is even further away from Mizan’s ideals than she had initially thought.
Here are some very nice things my agent and publisher have had to say about the novel:
”This upcoming novel is a heartwarming and accurate depiction of rootlessness and the search for a home to call one’s own. With equal parts humour and melancholy, Sonia Hussain depicts painful gaps between members of an immigrant family — cultural and generational. It is an entertaining and moving story about a father and a daughter in a diaspora. Two people who only have each other but are torn apart by culture clashes and dreams which were never fulfilled.”
Nora El Sharif, my agent at Albatros Agency
”It’s been a long time since I was so excited about a Swedish novel script! As a publisher, I am always on the lookout for novels that reflect our times and teach me something about the world, myself or relationships. Sonia Hussain succeeds in doing exactly this in her strong debut novel, which will be released in the spring of 2024.
In easy-flowing and well-written prose, she explores important themes such as interdependence, generational and class gaps, sexuality, rootlessness and the search for one’s own identity. We get to know Nadira and her father Mizan, learn about everything that rubs off between them but also that reconciliation is possible if we dare to open up and show ourselves vulnerable.
Sonia balances humor and blackness with elegance and her portrait of a grumpy, lonely old man and an unexpected friendship made me think of A Man Called Ove.”
Karin Linge Nord, my publisher at Bazar Förlag