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For years, entomologist Fredrik Sjöberg has collected, cataloged, and obsessed over the hoverflies that populate the remote Swedish island he calls home. As confounded by his unusual vocation as anyone, here Sjöberg explores what drives the obsessive curiosity of collectors, along the way finding time to muse on everything from art to lost love, and drawing on sources as disparate as D. H. Lawrence and the fascinating and forgotten naturalist René Edmond Malaise.  A mesmerizing memoir, The Fly Trap is one remarkable individual’s meditation on the unexpected beauty of small things and an examination of the history of entomology itself. Weaving a fascinating web of associations, histories, and personal memories, Sjöberg revels in the wonders of the natural world and, through indelible images and stories, opens up into it a dazzling, irresistible pathway.

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One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times * Kansas City Star Seductive . . . a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. The New York Times Book Review A charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir. . . . Filled with delightful observations. . . . The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz (sorry!) to even the most unlikely subjects. NPR The Geoff Dyer of Sweden: Funny, astute, intellectually voracious, simultaneously self-absorbed and self-critical. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker Mesmerizing. . . . A shimmering and elusive grace pervades Fredrik Sjoberg s evocation of his life and work as a hoverfly expert. Nature Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. Financial Times [A] wry, at times poetic memoir. The New York Times The writing is whimsical, digressive and pleasingly devoid of anything too weighty or purposeful. The Wall Street Journal Delightful . . . at once informative and often humorously digressive. . . . A humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. The Independent Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental. . . . It s really a book about how to find meaning in life. The Times (A Nature Book of the Year) Poetic . . . [Sjoberg] transforms a niche subject into one of widespread appeal, musing on the pleasures of country life and the line between avocation and obsession. Kansas City Star An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. The Times Literary Supplement As much about life as about entomology. . . . One of the pleasures of Sjoberg s book is that he honestly explores the psychological motives behind collecting. Santa Fe New Mexican I often return to The Fly Trap; it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that [Sjoberg] wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Charming . . . and original. . . . A bit like dinner with a witty European intellectual wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. The Guardian Sjoberg . . . thrives in the indistinct boundary between science and literature. . . . The real message of the book . . . is the quiet pleasure to be found in reading the fine print of knowledge. New Scientist [A] completely charming memoir. . . . The Fly Trap isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. The Daily Beast It is hard to believe, given the lucidity of his book, that [Sjoberg] could be a better entomologist than he is a writer. Sydney Morning Herald Insightful . . . [Sjoberg] approaches, at his best, the familiar, intimate and wistful power of that other Scandinavian literary giant, Karl Ove Knausgard. . . . [He writes] in a manner that oddly emulates those same elusive, beautiful, imitative hoverflies he has devoted so much of his life to. PopMatters One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times * Kansas City Star Seductive . . . a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. The New York Times Book Review A charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir. . . . Filled with delightful observations. . . . The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz (sorry!) to even the most unlikely subjects. NPR The Geoff Dyer of Sweden: Funny, astute, intellectually voracious, simultaneously self-absorbed and self-critical. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker Mesmerizing. . . . A shimmering and elusive grace pervades Fredrik Sjoberg s evocation of his life and work as a hoverfly expert. Nature Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. Financial Times [A] wry, at times poetic memoir. The New York Times The writing is whimsical, digressive and pleasingly devoid of anything too weighty or purposeful. The Wall Street Journal Delightful . . . at once informative and often humorously digressive. . . . A humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. The Independent Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental. . . . It s really a book about how to find meaning in life. The Times (A Nature Book of the Year) Poetic . . . [Sjoberg] transforms a niche subject into one of widespread appeal, musing on the pleasures of country life and the line between avocation and obsession. Kansas City Star An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. The Times Literary Supplement As much about life as about entomology. . . . One of the pleasures of Sjoberg s book is that he honestly explores the psychological motives behind collecting. Santa Fe New Mexican I often return to The Fly Trap; it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that [Sjoberg] wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Charming . . . and original. . . . A bit like dinner with a witty European intellectual wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. The Guardian Sjoberg . . . thrives in the indistinct boundary between science and literature. . . . The real message of the book . . . is the quiet pleasure to be found in reading the fine print of knowledge. New Scientist [A] completely charming memoir. . . . The Fly Trap isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. The Daily Beast It is hard to believe, given the lucidity of his book, that [Sjoberg] could be a better entomologist than he is a writer. Sydney Morning Herald Insightful . . . [Sjoberg] approaches, at his best, the familiar, intimate and wistful power of that other Scandinavian literary giant, Karl Ove Knausgard. . . . [He writes] in a manner that oddly emulates those same elusive, beautiful, imitative hoverflies he has devoted so much of his life to. PopMatters A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A badass Swede you've never heard of. . . . One of my favorite books of this year was The Fly Trap, by the writer and entomologist Fredrik Sjoberg, who appears to be the Geoff Dyer of Sweden: funny, astute, intellectually voracious, simultaneously self-absorbed and self-critical. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 Fredrik Sjoberg is like the Karl Ove Knausgaard of entymology . . . completely charming . . . his real focus is the human imperative to find meaning in daily experience. It s a subject he approaches in a wry and disarming fashion. . . . But The Fly Trap isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. . . . The Fly Trap is such an ardent, informed and sustained brief on behalf of the planet that a plea for this or that piece of green legislation seems unnecessary. The very existence of this subtle book is a powerful argument for vigilance. Kevin Canfield, The Daily Beast Seductive reading, a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. . . . Sjoberg s forthright and unapologetic unpretentiousness is close to liberating in an age when nature writing is so often quasi-theological, veering routinely between awe and homily, sometimes even in the same sentence. . . . He has a gift for identifying fascinating and unconventional careers and rendering them in ways that bring out a deep and affecting longing, a longing for love, beauty, and connection that appears to drive not only his protagonists but Sjoberg himself. . . . The straightforwardness of The Fly Trap is the product of the skill of its author and the sophistication of its structure. Somehow, Sjoberg carries you along on his many excursions and detours, always interesting but often only loosely associative, maintaining the momentum, pulling together a digressive skein of stories across centuries and continents, gently but determinedly insisting by example that calm, patience, good humor, care, and attention and open-mindedness are their own rewards. Hugh Raffles, The New York Times Book Review Entertaining . . . whimsical . . . rich . . . iconoclastic . . . brilliant. Richard Conniff, Wall Street Journal Write brilliantly and readers will follow you anywhere even into a swarm of hoverflies. That s one takeaway from The Fly Trap, a charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir by Fredrik Sjoberg, a biologist who muses and amuses about his baffling passion for hoverflies . . . a paean to some of the tiniest wonders of the natural world, but even more to the benefits of intense focus . . . filled with delightful observations . . . The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz . . . to even the most unlikely subjects. Heller McAlpin, NPR In sharing the experience of solitude and reflection, Sjoberg invites readers to see through his eyes, in language that is often poetic, sometimes inscrutable. Kirkus Reviews A memoir that reads like summer trapped within the pages of a warm and nourishing book. . . . Although the details about hoverflies are endlessly fascinating, what really elevates this book is Sjoberg's promise to have his memoir concentrate on his two-pronged mission: to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Poornima Apte, BookBrowse.com (5 Stars, Editor s Choice) A rare masterpiece . . . graceful, poetic, astonishing and yes! absolutely thrilling. Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental; . . . it s really a book about how to find meaning in life. Melissa Harrison, The Times (UK) (a Nature Book of the Year) Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. Carl Wilkinson, The Financial Times (UK) [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. Paul Binding, The Independent (UK) An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. Thomas Teal s translation captures Sjoberg s quiet, hypnotic style, his deadpan jokes. Jennie Erin Smith, The Times Literary Supplement (UK) Wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. Patrick Barkham, The Guardian (UK) I often return to The Fly Trap, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From the Hardcover edition. A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 Fredrik Sjoberg is like the Karl Ove Knausgaard of entymology . . . completely charming . . . his real focus is the human imperative to find meaning in daily experience. It s a subject he approaches in a wry and disarming fashion. . . . But The Fly Trap isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. . . . The Fly Trap is such an ardent, informed and sustained brief on behalf of the planet that a plea for this or that piece of green legislation seems unnecessary. The very existence of this subtle book is a powerful argument for vigilance. Kevin Canfield, The Daily Beast Seductive reading, a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. . . . Sjoberg s forthright and unapologetic unpretentiousness is close to liberating in an age when nature writing is so often quasi-theological, veering routinely between awe and homily, sometimes even in the same sentence. . . . He has a gift for identifying fascinating and unconventional careers and rendering them in ways that bring out a deep and affecting longing, a longing for love, beauty, and connection that appears to drive not only his protagonists but Sjoberg himself. . . . The straightforwardness of The Fly Trap is the product of the skill of its author and the sophistication of its structure. Somehow, Sjoberg carries you along on his many excursions and detours, always interesting but often only loosely associative, maintaining the momentum, pulling together a digressive skein of stories across centuries and continents, gently but determinedly insisting by example that calm, patience, good humor, care, and attention and open-mindedness are their own rewards. Hugh Raffles, The New York Times Book Review Entertaining . . . whimsical . . . rich . . . iconoclastic . . . brilliant. Richard Conniff, Wall Street Journal Write brilliantly and readers will follow you anywhere even into a swarm of hoverflies. That s one takeaway from The Fly Trap, a charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir by Fredrik Sjoberg, a biologist who muses and amuses about his baffling passion for hoverflies . . . a paean to some of the tiniest wonders of the natural world, but even more to the benefits of intense focus . . . filled with delightful observations . . . The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz . . . to even the most unlikely subjects. Heller McAlpin, NPR In sharing the experience of solitude and reflection, Sjoberg invites readers to see through his eyes, in language that is often poetic, sometimes inscrutable. Kirkus Reviews A memoir that reads like summer trapped within the pages of a warm and nourishing book. . . . Although the details about hoverflies are endlessly fascinating, what really elevates this book is Sjoberg's promise to have his memoir concentrate on his two-pronged mission: to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Poornima Apte, BookBrowse.com (5 Stars, Editor s Choice) A rare masterpiece . . . graceful, poetic, astonishing and yes! absolutely thrilling. Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental; . . . it s really a book about how to find meaning in life. Melissa Harrison, The Times (UK) (a Nature Book of the Year) Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. Carl Wilkinson, The Financial Times (UK) [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. Paul Binding, The Independent (UK) An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. Thomas Teal s translation captures Sjoberg s quiet, hypnotic style, his deadpan jokes. Jennie Erin Smith, The Times Literary Supplement (UK) Wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. Patrick Barkham, The Guardian (UK) I often return to The Fly Trap, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From the Hardcover edition. Fredrik Sjoberg is like the Karl Ove Knausgaard of entymology . . . completely charming . . . his real focus is the human imperative to find meaning in daily experience. It s a subject he approaches in a wry and disarming fashion. . . . But The Fly Trap isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. . . . The Fly Trap is such an ardent, informed and sustained brief on behalf of the planet that a plea for this or that piece of green legislation seems unnecessary. The very existence of this subtle book is a powerful argument for vigilance. Kevin Canfield, The Daily Beast Seductive reading, a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. . . . Sjoberg s forthright and unapologetic unpretentiousness is close to liberating in an age when nature writing is so often quasi-theological, veering routinely between awe and homily, sometimes even in the same sentence. . . . He has a gift for identifying fascinating and unconventional careers and rendering them in ways that bring out a deep and affecting longing, a longing for love, beauty, and connection that appears to drive not only his protagonists but Sjoberg himself. . . . The straightforwardness of The Fly Trap is the product of the skill of its author and the sophistication of its structure. Somehow, Sjoberg carries you along on his many excursions and detours, always interesting but often only loosely associative, maintaining the momentum, pulling together a digressive skein of stories across centuries and continents, gently but determinedly insisting by example that calm, patience, good humor, care, and attention and open-mindedness are their own rewards. Hugh Raffles, The New York Times Book Review Entertaining . . . whimsical . . . rich . . . iconoclastic . . . brilliant. Richard Conniff, Wall Street Journal Write brilliantly and readers will follow you anywhere even into a swarm of hoverflies. That s one takeaway from The Fly Trap, a charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir by Fredrik Sjoberg, a biologist who muses and amuses about his baffling passion for hoverflies . . . a paean to some of the tiniest wonders of the natural world, but even more to the benefits of intense focus . . . filled with delightful observations . . . The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz . . . to even the most unlikely subjects. Heller McAlpin, NPR In sharing the experience of solitude and reflection, Sjoberg invites readers to see through his eyes, in language that is often poetic, sometimes inscrutable. Kirkus Reviews A memoir that reads like summer trapped within the pages of a warm and nourishing book. . . . Although the details about hoverflies are endlessly fascinating, what really elevates this book is Sjoberg's promise to have his memoir concentrate on his two-pronged mission: to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Poornima Apte, BookBrowse.com (5 Stars, Editor s Choice) A rare masterpiece . . . graceful, poetic, astonishing and yes! absolutely thrilling. Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental; . . . it s really a book about how to find meaning in life. Melissa Harrison, The Times (UK) (a Nature Book of the Year) Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. Carl Wilkinson, The Financial Times (UK) [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. Paul Binding, The Independent (UK) An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. Thomas Teal s translation captures Sjoberg s quiet, hypnotic style, his deadpan jokes. Jennie Erin Smith, The Times Literary Supplement (UK) Wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. Patrick Barkham, The Guardian (UK) I often return to The Fly Trap, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From the Hardcover edition.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A badass Swede you've never heard of. . . . One of my favorite books of this year was The Fly Trap, by the writer and entomologist Fredrik Sjoberg, who appears to be the Geoff Dyer of Sweden: funny, astute, intellectually voracious, simultaneously self-absorbed and self-critical. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 Fredrik Sjoberg is like the Karl Ove Knausgaard of entymology . . . completely charming . . . his real focus is the human imperative to find meaning in daily experience. It s a subject he approaches in a wry and disarming fashion. . . . But The Fly Trap isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. . . . The Fly Trap is such an ardent, informed and sustained brief on behalf of the planet that a plea for this or that piece of green legislation seems unnecessary. The very existence of this subtle book is a powerful argument for vigilance. Kevin Canfield, The Daily Beast Seductive reading, a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. . . . Sjoberg s forthright and unapologetic unpretentiousness is close to liberating in an age when nature writing is so often quasi-theological, veering routinely between awe and homily, sometimes even in the same sentence. . . . He has a gift for identifying fascinating and unconventional careers and rendering them in ways that bring out a deep and affecting longing, a longing for love, beauty, and connection that appears to drive not only his protagonists but Sjoberg himself. . . . The straightforwardness of The Fly Trap is the product of the skill of its author and the sophistication of its structure. Somehow, Sjoberg carries you along on his many excursions and detours, always interesting but often only loosely associative, maintaining the momentum, pulling together a digressive skein of stories across centuries and continents, gently but determinedly insisting by example that calm, patience, good humor, care, and attention and open-mindedness are their own rewards. Hugh Raffles, The New York Times Book Review Entertaining . . . whimsical . . . rich . . . iconoclastic . . . brilliant. Richard Conniff, Wall Street Journal Write brilliantly and readers will follow you anywhere even into a swarm of hoverflies. That s one takeaway from The Fly Trap, a charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir by Fredrik Sjoberg, a biologist who muses and amuses about his baffling passion for hoverflies . . . a paean to some of the tiniest wonders of the natural world, but even more to the benefits of intense focus . . . filled with delightful observations . . . The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz . . . to even the most unlikely subjects. Heller McAlpin, NPR In sharing the experience of solitude and reflection, Sjoberg invites readers to see through his eyes, in language that is often poetic, sometimes inscrutable. Kirkus Reviews A memoir that reads like summer trapped within the pages of a warm and nourishing book. . . . Although the details about hoverflies are endlessly fascinating, what really elevates this book is Sjoberg's promise to have his memoir concentrate on his two-pronged mission: to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Poornima Apte, BookBrowse.com (5 Stars, Editor s Choice) A rare masterpiece . . . graceful, poetic, astonishing and yes! absolutely thrilling. Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental; . . . it s really a book about how to find meaning in life. Melissa Harrison, The Times (UK) (a Nature Book of the Year) Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. Carl Wilkinson, The Financial Times (UK) [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. Paul Binding, The Independent (UK) An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. Thomas Teal s translation captures Sjoberg s quiet, hypnotic style, his deadpan jokes. Jennie Erin Smith, The Times Literary Supplement (UK) Wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. Patrick Barkham, The Guardian (UK) I often return to The Fly Trap, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From the Hardcover edition.

One of the Best Books of the Year <i>The New York Times</i> * <i>Kansas City Star Seductive . . . a quirky and wide-ranging meditation on the deep pleasures of collecting, obsession and the natural world. <i>The New York Times Book Review A charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir. . . . Filled with delightful observations. . . . <i>The Fly Trap</i> stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz (sorry!) to even the most unlikely subjects. NPR The Geoff Dyer of Sweden: Funny, astute, intellectually voracious, simultaneously self-absorbed and self-critical. Kathryn Schulz, <i>The New Yorker</i> Mesmerizing. . . . A shimmering and elusive grace pervades Fredrik Sjoberg s evocation of his life and work as a hoverfly expert. <i>Nature</i> Sjoberg traces a sort of erratic flight path of ideas and associations, at once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it. <i>Financial Times</i> [A] wry, at times poetic memoir. <i>The New York Times</i> The writing is whimsical, digressive and pleasingly devoid of anything too weighty or purposeful. <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> Delightful . . . at once informative and often humorously digressive. . . . A humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, [Sjoberg] writes with infectious passion. <i>The Independent</i> Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental. . . . It s really a book about how to find meaning in life. <i>The Times</i> (A Nature Book of the Year) Poetic . . . [Sjoberg] transforms a niche subject into one of widespread appeal, musing on the pleasures of country life and the line between avocation and obsession. <i>Kansas City Star</i> An intriguing defence of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i> As much about life as about entomology. . . . One of the pleasures of Sjoberg s book is that he honestly explores the psychological motives behind collecting. <i>Santa Fe New Mexican</i> I often return to <i>The Fly Trap;</i> it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one s life. Sometimes I almost think that [Sjoberg] wrote it for me. Tomas Transtromer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Charming . . . and original. . . . A bit like dinner with a witty European intellectual wry, digressive and packed with fantastically clipped observations. <i>The Guardian</i> Sjoberg . . . thrives in the indistinct boundary between science and literature. . . . The real message of the book . . . is the quiet pleasure to be found in reading the fine print of knowledge. <i>New Scientist</i> [A] completely charming memoir. . . . <i>The Fly Trap</i> isn t just a series of artful ruminations on the timeless quest to understand the natural world (although that would be enough, wouldn t it?). Sjoberg is a genuinely funny guy. <i>The Daily Beast</i> It is hard to believe, given the lucidity of his book, that [Sjoberg] could be a better entomologist than he is a writer. <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i> Insightful . . . [Sjoberg] approaches, at his best, the familiar, intimate and wistful power of that other Scandinavian literary giant, Karl Ove Knausgard. . . . [He writes] in a manner that oddly emulates those same elusive, beautiful, imitative hoverflies he has devoted so much of his life to. <i>PopMatters</i></p>

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Fredrik Sjöberg is an entomologist and lives with his family on the island of Runmarö, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist, and the author of several books.

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