In Every Moment We Are Still Alive, Tom Malmquist
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive, Tom Malmquist
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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

Author: Tom Malmquist, Henning Koch

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2018

Synopsis

When Tom’s heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to the hospital, doctors are able to save the baby. But they are helpless to save Karin from what turns out to be acute leukemia. And in a cruel, fleeting moment Tom gains a daughter but loses his soulmate. In Every Moment We Are Alive is the story of the year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury and pain of loss with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone.By turns tragic and redemptive, meditative and breathless, achingly poignant and darkly funny, this autobiographical novel has been described as “hypnotic,” “impossible to resist,” and “one of the most powerful books about grief ever written.”

About Tom Malmquist

Tom Malmquist is a Swedish poet and writer. He has written two highly acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, In Every Moment We Are Still Alive.

About Henning Koch

Anders Rydell is a journalist, editor, and author of nonfiction. As the Head of Culture at a major Swedish media group, Rydell directs the coverage of arts and culture in 14 newspapers. His two books on the Nazis, The Book Theives and The Looters, have been translated into 16 languages. The Book Thieves is his first work published in English.  Henning Koch was born in Sweden but has spent most of his life in England, Spain, and Sardinia. Most recently he translated A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. He has also written a short story collection, Love Doesn't Work, and a novel, The Maggot People.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on October 22, 2017

4.5 stars. The intensity begins on the first page and continues with the fear and uncertainty over what was happening in this critical emergency situation. Tom's pregnant partner, Karin is extremely ill and is shortly diagnosed with acute leukemia. Anyone who’s ever been through such a time in the e......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on November 27, 2021

Sometimes I imagine my wife dies. Not because I want her to, but because it would be so awful. I like her so much, and also it would be inconvenient in a lot of ways. But it's fun to be maudlin! I would be a widower. It would be romantic. I imagine how wrenching my eulogy would be. "Webster defines......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on December 18, 2017

2 stars. I simply couldn't connect with this book. I have much respect for the author, Tom Malmquist, for writing this fictionalized autobiography. I feel that writing his story would have been therapeutic and life changing for him to have documented everything he went through and experienced. Unfort......more

Goodreads review by Bianca on June 10, 2023

In Every Moment We Are Still Alive is a sad, grief-filled novel. This novel is based on real-life events, which makes my review a bit more difficult to write. I don't know if it's the writing style and/or the translation, but I felt unusually detached, even though the subject matter should have made......more

Goodreads review by Ann Marie (Lit·Wit·Wine·Dine) on February 08, 2018

*** GIVEAWAY*** on Insta. Entries open till 11:59pm 2/11/18. Open to U.S. residents. You can read this and all of my reviews at Lit·Wit·Wine·Dine. “On the middle shelf in the bathroom cabinet lies Karin’s hairbrush. Her hairs are still snagged in its plastic teeth. She didn’t have time to prise them......more

Quotes

“This is narrative as raw material. In a powerful translation by the novelist Henning Koch, there are sentences of precise and subtle lyricism…The novel doesn’t feel remembered, though of course it is. That’s where its craft lies, and its triumph—in the suspension of hindsight, in an act of recollection whose hand is perpetually guiding the text, but can’t be seen.” New York Times Book Review (front page review)

“Beautiful…Arresting…A deeply personal account.” Guardian (London)

“Malmquist demonstrates over lengthy passages that he can relay life in an intense, heightened state. The result is exhilarating.” Financial Times (London)

“Malmquist’s immersive prose perfectly limns the demands of living within the chiaroscuro of deep grief.” Foreword Reviews (starred review)

“Simon Vance brings his considerable narration skills to Swedish writer Tom Malmquist’s autobiographical novel…Vance’s narration places listeners firmly inside Tom’s head…His raw feelings are palpable, but Vance’s strong delivery, evoking the author’s stiff upper lip and sense of humor, encourages listeners to carry on through even the darkest times.” AudioFile

“Kafkaesque…remarkably credible.” Booklist

"[A] moving…beautiful, raw meditation on earth-shattering personal loss.” Publishers Weekly

“An extended meditation on what it means to love and to mourn. A deeply emotional and affecting novel.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Millions.com Pick
  • Indie Next List
  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • New York Times   Bestseller
  • Signature Best Book
  • New York Times Book Review Notable Book
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