2023
Stockholm
Avishai Sar-Shalom, a world-renowned economist and the leading candidate for the Nobel Prize, is discovered dead in bed by four lifelong friends. Rather than call the police, they decide to conceal his death for eight days — long enough for the Prize committee to make its announcement. Told across eight sections, each from a different friend's perspective, Stockholm is a darkly comic novel about aging, ambition, friendship, and the secrets we carry to the grave.
"Too funny, too sad, too real, and too preposterous — just like life. Stockholm is the most entertaining book I've read in a long time."
"Bright, witty, irreverent and compassionate… an astute and hilarious study of the human condition."
"Hilarious, refreshing, tightly plotted and vividly written. An irresistible read."
"The portraits of these four friends are so vivid that as I read, I felt that Avishay's friends also became mine. Unputdownable, full of intrigue, a bit of sadness, and a lot of humor."
"A brilliant meditation on the intricacies of friendship, aging, ego, wounds and healing. Yedlin expertly peels back her complex characters' layers to reveal insights, dark and humorous alike, about what it is to be alive and mortal."
"What is sensational about Stockholm is the body: the way in which Yedlin hitches up her sharpened humor to her unique ability to close each segment with fine irony, treating the essence of an aging body — or even a dead one — in a way that astonishes and at the same time appears completely natural."
"Yedlin, a master at tone, grounds the antic comedy in reflections on aging, friendship, parenthood, life… A seriously funny take on death and dying."
"Wry, wise, and utterly absorbing."
"Deviously clever black comedy."
"A literary tour de force."
Adaptations
A television adaptation of Stockholm.
The original TV series adaptation.
A television adaptation of Stockholm.
