کتاب Wilful Disregard (رمان بی اعتنایی عمدی)

On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets renowned artist Hugo Rask, her rational world begins to unravel. Leaving her boyfriend and her past behind, Ester embarks on what is sure to be the greatest love story of her life.

It’s a shame no one else agrees.A creepy lucid dissection of the tangled psychology of love. ― M Magazine

Dry wit and sharp insight . . . If she sees an intellectual pretension, she pricks it ― The Economist

Lena Andersson’s Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple. — Alice Sebold, author of THE LOVELY BONES

A compelling read, a deeply philosophical book that attempts to make sense of love in the modern world ― Irish Examiner

Brilliant and unflinching on obsession, on desperation, on the stuff of how people are capable of being to each other. Andersson writes smart, sharp-eyed, and often witheringly funny prose; nobody gets out of this situation with their pride, or their public persona, intact. Which is what makes it such addictive reading. — Belinda McKeon, author of SOLACE and TENDER

Alas, most women have lived this story. Though few will have told it so well. Compelling and keenly observant. — Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin

Love, famously, is blind. People in love can lose even the most basic critical faculties and become capable of monumental self-deception. Hardly a new story, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this particular myopia as astutely and entertainingly explored as in this stunning novel . . . bruise-tender in its detail and emotional candour.
This is a slim volume, but every word packs a punch; every other sentence is so wise and funny that it begs to be quoted. Andersson’s gift for conjuring atmosphere and emotion out of small quotidian mishaps is extraordinary’