Hi! My name was Elton Persson (Hej! Mitt namn var Elton Persson)

Martin Svensson

 

Martin Svensson tells the funny and touching story of the young pop singer Elton, who, in an incredibly short time, became a pop idol and a star. He’s married to Someone, another successful pop singer, and he’s just moved into a fancy apartment in the upper-class neighborhood Östermalm, in Stockholm. The fairy tale could have had a happy ending then and there, but Elton is struck by a feeling of unhappiness and dissatisfaction and doesn’t recognize himself in the picture the media has made of him. The split dividing his singer persona and his true self grows ever wider, and begins to affect the relationship between himself and his wife.

 

This fast-paced story reveals uproariously funny insights and the inside scoop into the pop music world, as well as developing a penetrating description of fame’s shadow side. Hi! My name was Elton Persson is also a love story blown apart by reality. Martin Svensson has written a book which is both serious and entertaining.

 

272 pages

 

Rights sold

Sweden: Lind & Co (hardcover), Pocketförlaget (paperback),

eLib (electronical book)

 

Reviews

“An excellent book…a shoulder-shrugging Bukowski-like prose, filled with direct observation and self-disgust, crackling mini-catastrophes and jet-black disappointments…a small gem…”

Focus

 

“The book is a gold mine.”

Folkbladet

 

“Honest and raw”

Smålandsposten

 

Promo video for Hi! My name was Elton Persson (Swedish)

(By Pocketförlaget)

 

More video - Meet Martin Svensson at the Swedish Book Fair 2007 (Swedish)

(From Lind & Co, Martin Svensson's publishing house in Sweden)