Love - Damn it, How do You do it? (Kärlek, hur fan gör man?)

Bob Hansson

In this warm and generous book Bob Hansson talks both to famous and ordinary people who know the difficult secrets of love. Among them the former Swedish Arch Bishop K-G Hammar.

 

This is a book for all those who think that love is easy but relationships are troublesome. For those who planned to love just a little – but all of a sudden found themselves throwing ugly words over the kitchen counter. The book is a tribute to all those people who failed at love and yet, are ready to say YES to love again.

 

Bob Hansson has made ten interviews. Sometimes it’s funny, other times it gets emotional and intimate. Most of the time it’s both. The book also holds Bob Hansson’s Poems, Kind of About Love and at the end, a dictionary on different love words.

 

With Love – Damn it, How Do You D0 It? the reader gets a little wiser, a little more humble and a lot happier.

 

297 pages

 

Rights sold

Sweden: Wahlström & Widstrand, StorySide (audio book)

 

Reviews

”Closest to the truth about love comes Bob Hansson himself./…/In Hansson’s poetic and honest “love dictionary” at the end of the book the reading offers resistance and the text becomes close and aphoristic.”

Svenska Dagbladet

 

”Hansson’s book is a crystal gem. It feels completely honest.”

Aftonbladet

 

”… at the end of the book the keywords to love gets their own Hanssonian explanation. The words get wings and a richer meaning.

Hallandsposten

 

”Bob Hansson is curious, asks bold questions, listens, and stays in the background. But at the end, he ties together the interviews: one person leads to the next, the questions lead to the answers which lead to new questions. It’s beautiful. It’s funny. It’s daring. This book is inviting and just lovely.”

Helsingborgs Dagblad

 

”…he gives no certain answers, but leaves the questions unfinished. It’s unbelievably sympathetic!”

Ystads Allehanda

 

”It’s like a personal column that goes beyond the platitudes that usually distinguish the phenomenon of love. It takes on the traps and conditions of coupling with both warmth and honesty.”

Smålandsposten

 

”Hansson talks in a relaxed way to the people he interviews and no conversation is like the others.”

Tidningen ETC