{"product_id":"stieg-larsson-my-friend-by-kurdo-baksi","title":"‘Stieg Larsson, My Friend’ by Kurdo Baksi","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003eKurdo Baksi met Stieg Larsson in 1992, more than a decade before \u003cem\u003eThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\u003c\/em\u003e made Larsson posthumously famous, and knew him primarily as a journalist, activist and obsessive opponent of racism and the far right.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThis short memoir follows their friendship and working relationship through the creation of the anti-racist magazine \u003cem\u003eExpo\u003c\/em\u003e, years of political organising, death threats, sleeplessness and arguments over how seriously Sweden was taking its growing extremist movements. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eI was surprised by this, because it was a beautiful reminder that people have political lives before enormous commercial mythology emerges, and then flattens. Larsson here is committed, difficult, funny, dogmatic and chronically overworked; someone for whom journalism was a form of democratic combat. The passages on \u003cem\u003eExpo\u003c\/em\u003e are particularly strong, showing the magazine emerging not as an accessory to Larsson’s later fiction but as one of the central projects of his life. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMacLehose Press \/ Quercus, London, 2010. First British edition, first printing. Trade paperback. Light shelf wear and rubbing to covers, with minor edge and corner wear; internally clean and binding firm. Very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46331625832531,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-17T132050.701.png?v=1789615298","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/stieg-larsson-my-friend-by-kurdo-baksi","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}