Wilful Disregard: A Novel About Love

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WINNER OF THE 2013 AUGUST PRIZE

“Lena Andersson’s Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple.” Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks and she acts according to her principles.

Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her.

From now on Ester’s existence is intrinsically linked to that day, and the chain of events that unravels will change her life forever.

Bitingly funny and darkly fascinating Wilful Disregard is a story about total and desperate devotion and about how willingly we betray ourselves in the pursuit of love.

PRAISE FOR WILFUL DISREGARD: A NOVEL ABOUT LOVE

“This is a slim volume, but every word packs a punch; every other sentence is so wise and funny that it begs to be quoted…” The Guardian

“I never thought a book about anxious Swedish intellectuals engaged in a philosophical back and forth would grip me like an airport read, but here we are. From the first page I was deep in the headspace of our protagonist, Esther, a woman willing to destroy her life for a man who barely acknowledges her.” Lena Dunham in Lenny Letter

Author Information

Lena Andersson (b. 1970) is a journalist and novelist. She writes literary criticism for Svenska Dagbladet and is a columnist for Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest morning paper. She lives in Stockholm where she is considered one of the country’s sharpest contemporary analysts. Wilful Disregard is her fifth novel and won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize.