Kvinnor har vandrat i Elisabeth Rynells romaner förut, ofta i förfluten tid. Men Moll lever i ett samtida, kanske framtida Sverige, där olönsamma, onödiga människor utlokaliseras från huvudstaden. Under busstransporten norrut lyckas hon fly ut i skogen, rakt ut i ingenstans. Landskapet tar emot henne, och hon finner en övergiven väg där hon börjar den vandring som kanske ska föra henne till något. De tidigare romanerna med vandringstema, som En berättelse om Loka, Hohaj, Till Mervas och Hitta Hem, har drag av saga och legend. I Moll är visionen av det utarmade samhälle vi är på väg emot, och delvis redan lever i, konkret och skrämmande realistisk. Än en gång har Elisabeth Rynell med sitt klangrena språk hittat en oavvislig form för sin civilisationskritik och för en gripande berättelse om sorg, öde och försoning.
Author
Elisabeth Rynell (born 17 May 1954) is a Swedish poet and novelist. Her novel Till Mervas (2002), the first to be translated into English, appeared in 2011 as Mervas. Born in Stockholm, Rynell was the daughter of an English teacher and a nurse. After completing her schooling, she spent a year in England as an au pair. She has also visited Iran and Afghanistan on an overland trip to Pakistan and India. After spending much of her life in the far north of Sweden, she now lives in Stockholm and Hälsingland. After her husband died when he was only 22, Rynell embarked on her writing career, publishing seven collections of poetry and four novels, both highly esteemed in Sweden. Her first collection of poems Nattliga samtal (Noctural Conversations) appeared in 1990 but it was her novel Hohaj (1997) which brought her into the limelight and earned her two literary prizes. Her most recent work, Skrivandets sinne (Sense of Writing, 2013) is a collection of autobiographical essays evoking her writings about the city and the countryside as well as accounts of her closest friends, including the author Sara Lidman. Elisabeth Rydall has received several awards including the Swedish Radio Novel Prize in 1998 for Hohal, the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize in 2007 and the Sara Lidman Prize in 2014. (from Wikipedia)
