ELIN PERSSON made her debut with the young adult novel THE AFGHAN SONS (2020), winner of the 2021 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize. SOMETHING IS PULLING AT ME was published in 2021, followed by SUMMER in 2023. 

Elin is currently working as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Provins.

Her next novel PIZZERIA ROMA is a tribute to a village and its inhabitants – a novel about friendship and community, about small-town life, and work at the shop, about the love that has come and gone and the one that endures. 

Agent: Erik Larsson

TO BE PUBLISHED MARCH 2024, Wahlström & widstrand
genre fiction
PAGES 180

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Through the years, they’ve fallen away, the men at the workshop. One by one, they end up in the hospital, for their lungs or backs or knees. Even those who were strong as oxen, the ones who taught Magnus to weld. Now Magnus is on sick leave; the old guys say routines are important, like meeting at Roma, grabbing a coffee or a pizza, chatting a bit. When pain shoots through his body, the social insurance office gives him trouble, and the waiting time for surgery on his worn-down vertebrae feels as endless as the rushing stream outside his house, he’s lucky Kenneth is there. Kenneth – who holds Magnus up when it feels like he’s falling.