"Originally published in Sweden as Kvicksand by Leopard förlag, Stockholm, in 2014"--Title page verso
Contents:
Part I: The crooked finger The car accident People reluctantly on their way into the shadows The great discovery Quicksand the future is hidden underground the bubble in the glass Last will and testament The man in the window Hagar Qim The lion man Ice Turning time in a different direction A journey into the nether regions The young medical student A magician and an imposter A dream about a muddy trench in Flanders The caves The floating rubbish dump Signs The raft of death All this forgotten love Timbuktu A different archive The courage to be afraid Paris The hippos A cathedral and a cloud of dust Part II: The road to Salamanca Shadows Luminous teeth Photographs The way out Paris in flames, 1348 How long is eternity? Room number 1 The road to Salamanca, part 1 the man who dismounted from his horse While the child plays Elena the awakening according to Plato Winter night Relief Getting lost The road to Salamanca, part 2 Part III: The puppet on a string The earth floor Moving silently from darkness to darkness Mantova and Buenos Aires The stupid bird Who will be there in the end to listen? Salt water The buffalo with eight legs The secret of cave painters revealed The happiness brought by a rickety lorry in the spring The war invalid in Budapest A visit when something both begins and ends The woman with the sack of cement A winter in Heraklion Catastrophe on a German motorway Jealousy and shame The twenty-eighth day Meeting in a amphitheatre A thief and a policeman Youth The dead body on the bench for the accused A violent north-westerly storm A fictitious meeting in a park in Vienna, 1913 The puppet on a string Never being robbed of one's happiness
