Inlands, by Elin Willows
Inlands, by Elin Willows
Inlands, Elin Willows //
Translated by Duncan J. Lewis //
240 pages, paperback
Released February 20th 2020 //
A young woman from Stockholm relocates to her boyfriend’s home town, a small village in the far north of Sweden. The relationship has ended by the time she arrives.
Inlands is a story about loss and change and examines the tangible mechanics of everyday life, the mentality of a small community and the relationship between freedom and loneliness.
No one moves here. This becomes clear long before I pack up the car with all my things, to move here. It leads to countless explanations as to why I’m leaving the city to move more than a thousand kilometres away. Love, that’s the simplest explanation. But it still seems odd that I’m moving. That’s what everyone thinks.