Malma Station

A train speeds through a stark summer landscape, and every passenger is headed for Malma Station. None of them realizes how closely their fates are linked. Among the travelers are a married couple in crisis, a single father with his young daughter, and a woman trying to solve a mystery her mother left behind. Harriet is enigmatic, Oskar is controlling and Yana is searching, and each carries the scars of what came before.

The novel follows the crooked lines of family and history and shows how memories shift into new shapes. It raises the idea that the past, rather than the future, may be what we are able to change.

The structure mirrors the setting: the narrative builds like a train hurtling through time, with each chapter a separate car coupled to the next. It is a story about family secrets and injustices handed down through generations, and also a suspenseful hunt for a truth that could change everything.

Alex Schulman is a Swedish writer and podcaster, and this novel was translated into English from Swedish.