By Jan Myrdal

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Confessions of a Disloyal European
This sixties classic by the author of Report from a Chinese Village was chosen by the New York Times as one of ten books "of particular significance and excellence in 1968."

Childhood
Foreword by Harrison Salisbury
The son of Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, founders of the Swedish welfare state, tells a story about childhood and about what it took to become the enfant terrible of Swedish politics and one of Sweden's leading writers. A personal history that becomes the story of his time.

12 Going on 13
The look and feel of New York and Stockholm at a turning point for Myrdal's life and the world, the outbreak of World War II. Winner of Sweden's prestigious Esselte Prize for Literature.

India Waits
"With poker-hot prose, Myrdal makes us feel each horror anew, impressing through the force of his writing his conviction in the unacceptability of hunger, poverty and racism."
—Kirkus Reviews