• Tampere City Library, Finland
• Stockholm Public Library, Sweden

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Overlook Press ISBN 1585674087

A startlingly innovative novel from one of Sweden's most esteemed and best-selling authors, Torgny Lindgren's Hash charts the bizarre, black-comic odyssey of two men searching to find a ray of light in the darkest of times.

Setting out in 1947 from a small village where an epidemic of tuberculosis rages, Robert Maser, a travelling garment salesman who may or may not be the fugitive Nazi Martin Bormann, and the local school-teacher, Lars, embark on a bizarre quest to find the world's best Swedish hash - a culinary marvel whipped up from an assortment of grains and entrails and renowned among the peasants for its delectability and restorative powers.

Their adventures are narrated from the present in a faux-naif style by a 107-year-old newspaper reporter, who was witness to the events and has waited until now to confront his own relationship to life and death, happiness and suffering, and the power of art to express life's ambiguities.

Torgny Lindgren is widely hailed as one of the most prominent literary figures on the world scene today. He has been awarded the August Prize and the Nordic Prize, and his novels have been published in more than twenty-five languages. In 1991, Lindgren was elected to the Swedish Academy, the eighteen-member committee that selects the honourees for the Nobel Prize for Literature.