A country you don't hear about in the news, where you work four hours a day, eat rotten fish, and are depressed. And Carlson and Greta Thunberg live there. All this is about Sweden; of course, there is not much truth in these words.
Historian Yuliia Yurchuk, who has been living in Sweden for over ten years, will explain in her book what actually makes Swedish life Swedish. She will talk about the housing search (yes, for this, you have to stand in lines) and Swedish design, feminism, fathers on maternity leave, and trust in the state, as well as about lagom and why Swedes love committees so much.
Why is a simple "hello" so difficult for a Swede? Where to buy flower pots in the design of the prince? How do you celebrate Midsummer and Nobel Week, and why does Christmas morning start with oatmeal and Scrooge cartoons? You and I will live a whole year in Sweden, eat cinnamon buns, dance on the solstice day, and find out what Swedish life is like in practice.
Yuliia Yurchuk is a historian who translates from Swedish into Ukrainian. She taught at Södertorn and Umeå universities, as well as at Stockholm University.
In her research, she deals with the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, in particular, issues of memory of the Second World War, the Soviet period, as well as the history of religion in Ukraine.
