A Moth to a Flame - Penguin European Writers (Paperback)

'Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion' - Graham Greene

'Dagerman can evoke such emotion in a single sentence' - Colm Toibin

'There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities. A saint of this type is the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman.' - Times Literary Supplement

'A writer of uncommon urgency and power' - Siri Hustvedt

'A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian atmosphere of shadowy menace in his brief, intense novel, A Moth to a Flame... The novel absorbs the reader effortlessly... The landscape round Stockholm, with its fog-bound flatlands and grey winter seas, is vividly evoked. This moody, death-haunted novel is well worth reading' - Evening Standard

'This searing tale of bereavement and loathing feels all too relevant today' - Guardian