A pig is out on a drive through a landscape on the verge between winter and spring. Suddenly a wolf steps out into the middle of the road. “Stop! The bridge is closed!” says the wolf. The pig wonders how far it is to the bridge and when it might be repaired. The wolf says that it usually takes a while so why doesn’t the pig come over for a coffee and meet his wife too. A thrilling and minimalistic picture book about a sudden interruption and unexpected meeting. An unlikely gathering when two different temperaments socialize for a while. Nothing superfluous! The text is short and succinct. The result is both humour and suspense.

Lindström proves herself yet again as one of Sweden’s most accomplished and celebrated picture book makers who has brought the Swedish picture book to a higher artistic level. With a unique and distinct style, she often blends her quirky sense of humour with a touch of darkness and her writing is sparse and laconic. Her subject matter is original, and her stories sometimes bizarre, usually comical, at times melancholic, but almost always full of existential overtones.

“No one can create images like Eva Lindström: sparely populated with increasingly larger empty spaces, yet so loaded with meaning that you have to read and reread, over and over again.” DAGENS NYHETER

“What shall we do about Eva Lindström? Thank her, watch and love what she does, give her every August Prize in the world, for her artistic consistency and bold risk taking.”
DAGENS NYHETER

”Eva Lindström manages yet again with simple and distinct means to create a minor, but at the same time miraculous, re-creation of both the picture book genre and her own expression.” AFTONBLADET

There’s a liberating unpredictableness about Eva Lindström’s books, you wonder curiously: Where will she take us this time? It’s brilliant!”
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