Everything I Don't Remember

Books

A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash. Was it an accident or was it suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to map Samuel's last day alive. Through conversations with friends, relatives, and neighbors, a portrait of Samuel emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poseur. The young man who did everything for his girlfriend Laide and shared everything with his best friend Vandad. Until he lost touch with them both. By piecing together an exhilarating narrative puzzle, we follow Samuel from the day he first encounters the towering Vandad to when they become roommates. We meet Panther, Samuel's self-involved childhood friend whose move to Berlin cues the beginning of Samuel's search for the meaning of love - which in turn leads him to Laide. Laide has left a broken marriage behind in Brussels and returned to Stockholm where she becomes the protector of vulnerable women she meets in her role as interpreter from Arabic. When ...