The Fly Trap Audiobook

Quotes

• “The minute observations from nature reveal sudden insights into one’s life.”

  — Tomas Tranströmer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

• “Entertaining…whimsical…rich…iconoclastic…brilliant.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Full of charm, the insects are almost incidental…It’s really a book about how to find meaning in life.”

  — Times (London)

• “[A] wry…poetic memoir.”

  — New York Times

• “Seductive reading…Sjoberg carries you along on his many excursions and detours…pulling together a digressive skein of stories across centuries and continents.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “[Sjöberg] writes with infectious passion.”

  — Independent (UK)

• “A charming, off-the-beaten track, humorously self-deprecating memoir…a paean to some of the tiniest wonders of the natural world but even more to the benefits of intense focus…The Fly Trap stands as proof that great writing can lend a buzz to even the most unlikely subjects.”

  — NPR

• “A badass Swede you’ve never heard of…One of my favorite books of this year was The Fly Trap, by the writer and entomologist Fredrik Sjöberg, who appears to be the Geoff Dyer of Sweden: funny, astute, intellectually voracious, simultaneously self-absorbed, and self-critical.”

  — New Yorker

• “An intriguing defense of the selfish, even hedonistic pleasures of natural history. Thomas Teal’s translation captures Sjöberg’s quiet, hypnotic style, his deadpan jokes.”

  — Times Literary Supplement (UK)

• “Wry, digressive, and packed with fantastically clipped observations.”

  — Guardian (UK)

• “The Fly Trap is such an ardent, informed, and sustained brief on behalf of the planet that a plea for this or that piece of green legislation seems unnecessary. The very existence of this subtle book is a powerful argument for vigilance.”

  — Daily Beast

• “At once whimsical and yet laden with erudition and a deep feeling for the natural world and our place in it.”

  — Financial Times (UK)

• “A memoir that reads like summer trapped within the pages of a warm and nourishing book…What really elevates this book is Sjöberg’s promise to have his memoir concentrate on his two-pronged mission: ‘to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape.’”

  — BookBrowse.com (5 Stars, Editor’s Choice)

• “A rare masterpiece…graceful, poetic, astonishing and—yes!—absolutely thrilling.”

  — Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten (Viby, Denmark)

• “Sharing the experience of solitude and reflection…in language that is often poetic, sometimes inscrutable.”

  — Kirkus Reviews