Cigarette, Per Hagman //
Translated by Elinor Fahrman //
Pages 160, paperback
Released April 28th, 2022 //

Stockholm. Early summer, 1989. Johan is a young waiter working at the Hard Rock Cafe. His nights are filled with parties, drugs, booze and MTV. An endless chase of the next girl, the next high... the next music video.

The first book in a loose trilogy, when Cigarette was first published in Sweden it heralded the arrival of a bold new voice in contemporary nordic literature. A troubadour of 80s and 90s metropolitan nightlife, Nordisk Books is delighted to publish Per Hagman's electric debut in English for the first time, thanks to Elinor Fahrman's brilliant translation.