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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist
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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

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Narrator Simon Vance
Translator Henning Koch
Length 7 hours 44 minutes
Language English
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When Tom’s heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to the hospital, doctors are able to save the baby. But they are helpless to save Karin from what turns out to be acute leukemia. And in a cruel, fleeting moment Tom gains a daughter but loses his soulmate. In Every Moment We Are Alive is the story of the year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury and pain of loss with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone.

By turns tragic and redemptive, meditative and breathless, achingly poignant and darkly funny, this autobiographical novel has been described as “hypnotic,” “impossible to resist,” and “one of the most powerful books about grief ever written.”

Tom Malmquist is a Swedish poet and writer. He has written two highly acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, In Every Moment We Are Still Alive.

Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, including one for his narration of Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. A multiple Audie finalist, Simon has won Audie Awards for The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan, and The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Winner of the 2008 Booklist Voice of Choice Award, Simon has also been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

Anders Rydell is a journalist, editor, and author of nonfiction. As the Head of Culture at a major Swedish media group, Rydell directs the coverage of arts and culture in 14 newspapers. His two books on the Nazis, The Book Theives and The Looters, have been translated into 16 languages. The Book Thieves is his first work published in English.
 
Henning Koch was born in Sweden but has spent most of his life in England, Spain, and Sardinia. Most recently he translated A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. He has also written a short story collection, Love Doesn't Work, and a novel, The Maggot People.

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Reviews

“This is narrative as raw material. In a powerful translation by the novelist Henning Koch, there are sentences of precise and subtle lyricism…The novel doesn’t feel remembered, though of course it is. That’s where its craft lies, and its triumph—in the suspension of hindsight, in an act of recollection whose hand is perpetually guiding the text, but can’t be seen.”

“Beautiful…Arresting…A deeply personal account.”

“Malmquist demonstrates over lengthy passages that he can relay life in an intense, heightened state. The result is exhilarating.”

“Malmquist’s immersive prose perfectly limns the demands of living within the chiaroscuro of deep grief.”

“Simon Vance brings his considerable narration skills to Swedish writer Tom Malmquist’s autobiographical novel…Vance’s narration places listeners firmly inside Tom’s head…His raw feelings are palpable, but Vance’s strong delivery, evoking the author’s stiff upper lip and sense of humor, encourages listeners to carry on through even the darkest times.”

“Kafkaesque…remarkably credible.”

"[A] moving…beautiful, raw meditation on earth-shattering personal loss.”

“An extended meditation on what it means to love and to mourn. A deeply emotional and affecting novel.”

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