Joan Tateová bola plodnou prekladateľkou, ktorá preložila diela mnohých popredných švédskych a švédsky hovoriacich fínskych autorov do angličtiny. Jej práca sprístupnila anglicky hovoriacim čitateľom bohatý rad škandinávskej literatúry. Tateová sa vyznačovala schopnosťou zachytiť nuansy a štýl originálnych diel, čím si získala uznanie za svoj precízny a citlivý prekladateľský prístup. Jej odkaz spočíva v rozšírení literárnych obzorov a v budovaní mostov medzi kultúrami prostredníctvom literatúry.
Anna, Hanna a Johanna, tri generácie žien jednej rodiny, žijú v spoločnosti, ktorá na ne vplýva a chce im vnútiť svoje rokmi overené, nemenné zvyky a tradície. Do akej miery sa môžu pričiniť o naplnenie vlastných predstáv o rodine, zamestnaní a spoločenskom postavení? Marianne Fredrikssonová si kladie otázku, či dosiahnutie rovnoprávnosti urobili ženu šťastnejšou.
The man who founded Ikea at the age of seventeen in 1943 reveals how he built his business into the largest and most well-known furniture manufacturer in the world.
Under the Snow opens with a phone call from an outlying village to police constable Torsson, and the news is of a mah jong party turned sour. A brawl broke out and a man named Matti was accidentally killed. When he questions the villagers, Torsson notices some minor discrepancies in their stories, but writes them off as unimportant. It is not until a few months later that he is forced to reopen the case: David, an eccentric artist and old friend of Matti, has arrived in town for a visit with no knowledge of the death. David has an uneasy feeling about the whole affair, and when he finds Anna Ryd, the town's beautiful English teacher, running away with a bag containing a noose with human hairs on it, he makes it his business to find out what happened. Gradually the facts of the case come to light and dark deeds which were covered up in the snow and darkness of winter are finally brought to light under the relentless summer sun.
Commissioner Martin Beck's associates begin a search for a ladder truck whose disappearance resulted in the death of eleven people.