Fishing in Utopia

"In the 1970s Andrew Brown, a misfit young Englishman, moved to Sweden, enticed by the possibility of a cleaner, kinder, more rational future. He married a Swedish woman, learned to fish, and brought up his young son in their makeshift cottage in the woods. But during the 1980s, his marriage and his country fell apart as the temptations of the outside world forced their way in. The prime minister, Olof Palme, was assassinated. Twenty years after Palme's murder, Andrew Brown travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had loved, and then hated, and now found he loved again."--Book cover.

Prize history

• Orwell Prize for Political Writing

  2009

  Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

  Winner