Karin Altenberg

Karin Altenberg’s forthcoming novel is set on the coast of southern Sweden in 1943 and 1981, at two pivotal historical moments, characterized by great threat. The Coldest Sound is a novel about hard borders and porous boundaries, about connections going back decades, love, solidarity and betrayal and the web of lies we weave around the secrets we keep. It is a story that speaks to this historical moment: ordinary people living in uncertain times under great threat, when moral codes and the normal rules of society can be suspended.