The book „Captain Nemo’s Library” by Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist (1934) will be presented on 22nd of February in the person of the author himself. The event is organized by the Publishing House „Atēna” and the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office. Per Olov Enquist is known in Latvia with his other novel “The Visit of the Royal Physician” translated and published in Latvian in 2002. “The Visit of the Royal Physician” was recognized as the best novel of the year (1999) in Sweden, the best-translated novel in France (2001), Germany (2002) and England (2003).
The story of “Captain Nemo's Library” largely deals with the life of two childhood friends, the narrator and his friend Johannes, in bleak northern Sweden. The two were switched at birth, something that is discovered after a few years. After a prolonged legal battle, the two switch families: it is 1940, they are six years old and their worlds have been thrown upside down…
