Echoes from the dead (2008)

Twenty years after her son Jens vanished on Öland, Julia receives a new reason to return when her father is sent one of the child’s sandals. Their strained relationship becomes part of the work of asking islanders what they remember. Theorin lets local stories outlive their tellers, making it difficult to separate a useful recollection from a durable legend. Marlaine Delargy’s translation opens the Öland quartet. Choose it for slow, atmospheric investigation and grief that has continued to organise a family.