Malma Station - by Alex Schulman (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A train races through a stark summer landscape. Everyone on board is traveling to Malma Station, and no one realizes how their fates are intertwined, in this riveting literary suspense.

On board the train to Malma Station are a married couple in crisis, a single dad and his young daughter, and a woman searching for the answer to a mystery her mother left behind. The enigmatic Harriet, the controlling Oskar, and the searching Yana--each of these characters carries within them the scars of what has come before.

From the acclaimed author of The Survivors, Alex Schulman's Malma Station traces the crooked lines of family and history and shows how memories morph and take new shape. The novel makes the reader wonder if it the past we can change, rather than the future. With vivid prose, the narrative builds like a train hurtling through time, each chapter a separate car hooking into the next.

Malma Station is by turns an enchanting and gut-wrenching novel about family secrets and injustices passed on through generations and a suspenseful hunt for a truth with the power to change everything.

Review Quotes

"Schulman exposes the dangers of clinging too hard to stories that don't serve us, while illustrating both the transcendence and freedom found in discovering the truth."--New York Journal of Books

"Malma Station toggles back and forth in time as its characters try to suppress or redirect their traumas. Mr. Schulman's unflinching if compassionate novel spares no one, not even the reader."--Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal

"These passengers and their journeys are separated by decades, each providing a vital clue to the next. A delicate yet tightly woven tale of parents and children, and of how the stories of our inheritance are shaped."--The Guardian

Praise for Alex Schulman

"Takes you deep into an emotional labyrinth. Brilliant, haunting and unforgettable."-- "Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove"

"A bleak and beautiful tale of a shattered family and one terrible summer."-- "Literary Hub, CrimeReads"

"A lyrical novel of psychological suspense...Powerfully rendered."
-- "Wall Street Journal"

"In this taut thriller, three grown brothers bear their mother's ashes to a remote lakeside cabin, where they pore over a crime committed twenty years earlier...Their shared history is a Pandora's box of secrets."
-- "Oprah Daily"

About the Author

Alex Schulman is a writer and journalist from Sweden. He has multiple books, one of which was named Book of the Year in Sweden in 2017, and his novel The Survivors, was the first to appear in English.