A man who

turns into a wolf and disappears into the wild runs a wolf.

Afterwards, one hand has turned into a paw.

Everything else that happened out there remains invisible and secret.

Kerstin Ekman's story "Running wolf" is about the transformation when a man returns, and sees his life in a new painful light.

About the memories that suddenly haunt the retired forester and hunting leader Ulf Norrstig when he saw a mighty male wolf from the window of his princess cake green caravan in the woods.

"I saw him and my life was no longer normal."

Perhaps "Running a wolf" is

connected with Ekman's portrayal of the book world from 2011, "Grand final in the prank industry", a dizzyingly funny and sarcastic drama for two voices.

One was Lillemor Troj, the pleasant blonde, the other the provocative Barbro Babba Andersson.

Troy did perfectly in public and Babba wrote the books.

Together they became a perfect author monster.

It was also a novel about transformation, about the author having a secret persona that no one is allowed to see.

Cups!

Already in the

sixth sentence

of the book

, one understands that order must be shaken seriously.

In the kitchen is a weapon, a bouncer.

Uncharged against all rules.

"I do not know why.

It's just that. ”

The reader knows that if a story begins with a loaded weapon, it will be fired, etc., and the story follows in the footsteps of the nasty "that just becomes" as both a thrilling and melancholy meditation on what it is to be human towards the end of one's life. .

Over memory and writing.

And over everything you have not done even though you should.

Slaughter scenes and rag mat cutting

keep the reader's attention focused on life's rehearsals.

Art requires corporeality - but art is also about making the dead resurrect.

Ekman writes about the conflicts in the village, about wolf hatred, about how Ulf is perceived as a traitor.

A subtle subtitle with a newspaper article about the jubilee that informs that he could never afford to take over the ancestral farm in Hälsingland opens up for paranoia.

An insult to the integrity of class society?

They over aged man?

But the ambiguous

end after a hunting crime begs the question: who should you be loyal to?

Man or animals, the law?

And you should read very carefully, because here the most difficult question is asked about care.

Whose life must not be wasted?

It's dark and cold

, it's about the death of nature.

But what happens when you read this book, Kerstin Ekman says best herself: "You know how it feels when you light up."