About the book: 2019 / “Time doesn’t go quite as you think” - this is how the story of the Swedish writer and journalist, winner of the August Prize for the best non-fiction (2011) and the prize named after. Ryszard Kapuscinski for Best Literary Reporting (2013) Elisabeth Osbrink In her biography of 1947, the year that saw the beginning of the reconstruction of post-war Europe, the independence of the colonies, the emancipation of women, the foundations of the Cold War and the detonation of slow-moving mines in the Middle East , — Osbrink intersperses quotes from the press and published sources, oral recollections and interviews with a masterfully constructed lyrical speech of the narrator, either an impartial observer or a sympathetic interlocutor.