And the Walls Became the World All Around

Johanna Ekström, Sigrid Rausing

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Granta Books
7 November 2024
ISBN: 9781803511566
Hardback
336 pages

From the publisher

The shrunken space of the pandemic. A broken relationship. Grief for a dying mother and the creeping shadow of illness.

When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekström found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. Rausing transcribed and edited the thirteen handwritten notebooks left by Ekström. The result is a memoir of exceptional depth and intensity, published to critical acclaim in Sweden in 2023. The work showcases Ekström's vivid imagination, writerly precision, and psychological insight, interwoven with Rausing's spare and sober reflections. And the Walls Became the World All Around is a literary experiment, a testament to friendship, and a deep meditation on grief.