Military. Ericksdotter Osa

The frightening, incredibly realistic and absolutely delaying allegory of obscurantist growing in the world.

One of the most prosperous countries, Sweden, decided to arrange a "new beautiful world", cleansing it from people who do not satisfy the standards A healthy lifestyle is from everyone who has a weight exceeds the norm determined by the government. The country is rapidly immersed in prejudices, the search for scapegoats and a personality cult. The politician Johan Sverd came to power thanks to his main pre -election promise: the struggle against the epidemic of obesity. Baking, meat, sweets and a lot of things from now on the law. If you fit back to normal, then official warnings arrive for you, the neighbors mow, insults are flying on the street. But this is only the beginning. The churches are gradually turning into fitness halls, farms are closed, all methods are aggressively advertised on TV-from diets to surgery...

the young historian Landon in despair observes how his girl is gradually immersed in anorexia. The nurse Helena lost her job due to the fact that, according to new installations, nurses with overweight do not affect patients poorly. The writer Gloria falls into a trap, placed in a batch of health on everything to put an end to obesity. Fat men gradually begin to disappear. And then just large people disappear. When Helen disappears, Landon goes to search for it.

Asse Ericksdotter’s novel is a terrible vision of how discrimination can rapidly become the norm, how civilization flies from a person, how easy it is to deceive us all.