In a memoir, Nicolas Lunabba describes what it is like to end up at the bottom of a rich country, to be excluded from the apparently egalitarian society. And all of Sweden wanted to read it. Meeting with a bestselling author.
The book begins with a gesture that is actually far too big: he takes in this lanky boy, Elijah. He always hangs out on the basketball court with his two friends Abba and Josef. Whose single mother is an alcoholic. And who is in danger of slipping into one of the youth gangs that are currently leaving a trail of violence through Nydala, one of the poor districts of Malmö: Elijah is 14, but eight people have already been killed in his immediate environment. Now this pubescent giant is suddenly sleeping on his sofa, and he is angry with himself: Why did I do that? And what should I do now?