The Photographer’s Shadow
Original title: Fotografens skugga
Author: Agnes Lidbeck
Original publisher: Albert Bonniers förlag (Karin Linge Nord)
Genre: Fiction
Publishing: Aug 2026

A man is drawn into a relentless night of memory, guilt, and self-confrontation.

The Photographer’s Shadow is a sweeping, psychologically charged novel about transgression, inheritance, and the cost of freedom.

Filip stands beside a hospital bed. In the bed lies his daughter, Eddie. She no longer wants contact. His phone rings — it is her mother, the woman he betrayed.

Over the course of a sleepless night, Filip is forced into a reckoning with his past. In the silence, his inner questions sharpen: where does his profound loneliness come from? Is there still a path to intimacy for someone who has failed those closest to him? As he turns inward, he confronts the figures who shaped his life — his father, his grandfather, Eva, and Bibs — and the secrets, longings, and acts of love that bind them together.

With her signature precision and emotional acuity, Agnes Lidbeck delivers a luminous novel about the choices that define a life — and the devastating price of personal freedom.