Steinhof - Softcover

'Steinhof conceals an incredible power beneath its unassuming surface. It is as if Hansson has come closer to the clear spring water that she has been searching for. As soon as you breathe on the text, it becomes luminous' - Expressen 'Hansson builds up a picture of a woman who has denied her past in a highly suggestive manner. She portrays this very painful process with great competence and insight... incredibly powerful and shocking' - Dala Demokraten

Budapest, 1956. The Russians are invading and there are reports of massacres in surrounding towns. Magda, 23, flees with the other teachers and children across the border into Austria. She eventually marries a conventional middle-class doctor yet becomes filled with a sense of slowly exploding desperation, resulting in her incarciration in Steinhof mental hospital...'Memorable and highly original...about a woman's identity and - brilliantly described - her strange road to recovery' - Joan Smith