Compartment No. 6
ORIGINAL TITLE: Hytti nro 6
AUTHOR: Rosa Liksom
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER: WSOY
GENRE: Fiction, Film rights
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Reviews
”…a wonderful novel…”
Neue Züricher Zeitung
"Rosa Liksom moves deftly between a myriad of subplots as they unfold in tandem to the novel's central theme, in this way creating a powerful impression of the many torments that have shaped the destiny of the Russian people. Within the flowing descriptions each story lies enclosed within the next much as with Russian dolls, and the least is the most touching of all."
La Liberté Suisse
"The literary composition alone is worth the money, the melodic, rhythmic language, compressed, poetical and replete with fragrance and colour sensations… The girl and the man, this unlikely couple, accompany one another at the close across the plains as if progressing through a film by Andrej Tarkovskij."
Svenska Dagbladet
"The outcome is both atmospheric and beautiful, an elegy to the Soviet Union and its people, the land where ‘unhappiness is perceived as happiness.”
Helsingborgs Dagblad
"All this black as night misery and despair are elevated by the writer into literature. She achieves this by means of the girl’s acute observations and sensitivity and the man’s luxuriating exaggeration and burlesque vehemence… The entire text is saturated with marked sensuality: the taste of buckwheat porridge, beetroots and rancid fat. And the human smells of sweat, fusel alcohol and poverty… And thus ‘Hytti no 6’ becomes a remarkable little book."
Göteborgs-Posten
"The wild stories of the rough fellow passenger make this journey increasingly absurd, giddying and captivating… It is a stroke of genius to describe a country and give form to one’s mixed feelings for it through such a figure. To me, he is the incarnation of the human factor, which means that reason can never prevail, neither in planned nor in Capitalist economies."
Aftonbladet
"Liksom is a master of controlled exaggeration. With a couple of carefully chosen brushstrokes, a mini-story, she is able to conjure up an entire human destiny." .
From the motivation for the Finlandia Prize
"The most fascinating thing about this short novel is Rosa Liksom’s masterly ability to visualise life and landscape. She is an artist, after all, and the imagery in the book is often very surprising and always loaded with meaning."
Hufvudstadsbladet
Rights sold
Bulgarian rights sold to Perseus
Danish rights sold to Tiderne skifter
Dutch rights sold to Podium
Estonian rights sold to Koolibri
Film rights sold to Aamo Filmcompany Ltd
French rights sold to Gallimard
German rights sold to DVA
Hungarian rights sold to Szephalom
Icelandic rights sold to Uppheimar
Italian rights sold to Iperborea
Latvian rights sold to Zvaigzne
Lithuanian rights sold to Kitos Knygos
Macedonian rights sold to Antolog
Portuguese (Brazil) Rights sold to Realejo
Portuguese rights sold to Relogio D Agua
Russian rights sold to Text
Spanish Rights sold to Alianza
Spanish rights sold to Salamandra
Swedish rights sold to Wahlström & Widstrand
World English rights sold Serpents Tail UK