You and You and You Book

Anon gets teased mercilessly at school. Someone has been peeing on the toilets at school and he gets blamed for it. He's just a daydreaming kid, lost in his own world, and the teasing really doesn't bother him. He hardly notices it. He's more caught up in his daydreaming world about a girl named Sara that he doesn't know (but imagines in great detail) and about his father (who does not live with him). Zarah has more serious trouble. Her boyfriend, Victor, is turning out to be trouble, and a crisis. He spends a lot of time thinking about death and life. When Nils finds Zarah, his life takes on new meaning. In watching Anon be so lost in his daydreams, Nils rediscovers the happiness he knew as a daydreaming kid.

Author Biography: Per Nilsson was born in Mälmo in 1954. Today he lives in Sölvesborg with his four children. He trained as a mathematics and music teacher. For many years he worked part-time in a school and part-time as an author. Today he is a full-time author. He sees his books as letters in which he carries on conversations with young adults about life and death, about hope and belief in the future, about roles we play, the world we live in and about love. His literary strength lies in his use of new motives and unexpected ways of thinking. He has written about twenty books, many of which have won awards. Heart's Delight is the first of Mr. Nilsson's books to be published in the U.S. It won first prize in Rabén & Sjögren's 1992 awards competition for best love story, the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturepreis in 1997, and the Dutch "Silver Kiss" in 1999. Mr. Nilsson also writes the script for a family series on Swedish television.