Klas Ostergren's 1980 Swedish novel "Gentelmen" has finally been translated into English and The Complete Reviews gives it a B+ ("appealing, roundabout slice of life in post-WWII Sweden").
Gentlemen is a book of a different time (and place), the atmosphere of Sweden at the end of the 1970s suffusing the text (there's even a biting bleakness in Klas' repeated reminders that it's the Year of the Child ...), but it's strong enough to still be well worth reading
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