# The fly trap by Fredrik Sjöberg (Paperback)

**Fredrik Sjöberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.**

_'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'_

Fredrik Sjöberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This beguiling bestseller is his unique meditation on collecting hoverflies. It is also about living on a remote Swedish island, blissful long summer nights, lost loves, unexpected treasures, art, nature, slowness, and how freedom can come from the things we least expect.

'Full of charm, a book about how to find meaning in life' Melissa Harrison, _The Times,_ Books of the Year

'I often return to _The Fly Trap_, it remains close to my heart. The minute observations from nature that reveal sudden insights into one's life. Sometimes I almost think that he wrote it for me' Tomas Tranströmer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

'Charming, witty and original' Patrick Barkham, _Guardian_

'Nature writing that can laugh at itself, a real tonic' Gregory Day, _Sydney Morning Herald_

'Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive . . . a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjöberg writes with infectious passion' Paul Binding _Independent  
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Fredrik Sjöberg** collects hoverflies on the island Runmarö, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books including _The Art of Flight_ and _The Raisin King_, which form a trilogy with _The Fly Trap_.

## Details

- **Price:** 11.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Penguin Books
- **Type:** Nature
- **Tags:** All Books, Nature

## Variants

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| Default Title | 11.49 GBP | In stock |

## Images

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