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“In the Swedish musician’s disturbing, engrossing first novel, an incongruous group of individuals—a rootless Hungarian man, an animal-rights activist, a woman who murdered her husband, an ant specialist and her unwanted child—form a tiny, virtually silent commune cut off from society. Taking place over many years, with interludes into the characters’ back stories, The Colony asks: Is this an Edenic laboratory of human cooperation, or something more like a cult?”
Read the full article in The New York Times.