“It is Jörgen Löwenfeldt’s ability to skillfully reflect the connected life of our time and its zeitgeist that elevates this debut beyond the ordinary, giving it the sheen of a generational novel.”
– Norrköpings Tidningar
“With an alert gaze, the author observes the digital worlds we move between, and the identities we create and recreate.”
– Modern Psykologi
Johan has been accepted onto the psychology programme at Karolinska Institutet. There he meets Eva. She is secretive and believes they should remain blank to one another. Yet Johan begins to tell his story anyway. About the boredom of his childhood. About how he managed to become financially independent through online poker. About how he fills the walls of his expensive flat with illustrations. About how he publishes his own art online, and how the hype around his work takes off, fuelling a vain chase for ever more likes.
One day Eva is gone. Johan realises that he knows nothing about her. And when he begins to look for her, he discovers that nothing that surfaces about her matches the image he has constructed.
Alone Together is a timeless story about a couple in the borderland between newly found friendship and newly awakened love. But it is also a novel about the connected life we live today, where we are constantly available to others, and where it is increasingly easy to present oneself as someone entirely different from who one really is.
“This is brilliant. The narrative voice feels unique, and I would swear there is not a single unnecessary word in the entire book. I could not stop reading.”
Annas Fotnoter
“A strong, brilliant, and beautifully written debut.”
Jennies boklista
JÖRGEN LÖWENFELDT, born in 1983, works as a journalist with a focus on psychology, science, and digital media. On the Instagram account Bagatellerna he publishes micro-fiction that has reached a large and engaged readership. Alone Together is his debut novel.
Genre: Novel
Hardback, ISBN: 9789188681119
E-book, ISBN: 9789188681126
Number of pages: 192
Publication date: 2017-09-06
On Bokus (now e-book only).
On Bokbörsen (physical copy)
