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\n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © Therese Bohman 2014  \nTranslation copyright © Marlaine Delargy 2015  \nOriginally published in Swedish as Den andra kvinnan by Norstedts, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2014.  \nOther Press gratefully acknowledges that the cost of this translation was defrayed by a subsidy from the Swedish Arts Council.  \nProduction editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Other Press LLC, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. For information write to Other Press LLC, 267 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, [NY 10016. Or visit our Web site:](NY 10016. Or visit our Web site: www.otherpress.com)[ www.otherpress.com](NY 10016. Or visit our Web site: www.otherpress.com)  \n[The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:](The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:)  \n[Bohman](Bohman), Therese, 1978-author.  \n[Andra kvinnan. English]  \nThe other woman / Therese Bohman ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.  \npages cm  \nISBN 978-1-59051-743-7 (paperback)—ISBN 978-1-59051-744-4 (e-book) 1. Manwoman relationships—Fiction.  \nI. Delargy, Marlaine, translator. II. Title.  \nPT9877.12.O48A5413 2016  \n839.73′8—dc23  \n2015031212  \nPublisher’s Note:  \nThis is a work of ɹction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used ɹctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nv3.1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nOther Books by This Author  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nEpigraph  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMy plebeian blood saved me, I do not ɹnd it very easy to die.  \nIt is worse for the gods who must have love./…/  \nI sit in the kitchen and my heart is nothing more than a sponge.  \nIt has been in the depths, and can absorb anything.  \nÅSA NELVIN  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nNOVEMBER has settled over Norrköping, the town has been  \nshrouded in mist all through the fall. The linden trees lining the avenues are a blaze of yellow, the air is mild but the morning is bitterly cold as I walk to the bus stop down by the station, cutting across the forecourt of the Östgöta Theater and reading the inscription above the main entrance: PROCLAIM CENTURIES OF SORROW, PROCLAIM CENTURIES OF JOY .  \nThe ɻoors at home are cold, the whole apartment is cold because the landlord doesn’t seem to have got the heat working yet, the radiators are barely lukewarm and the place is so drafty. I live on the ground ɻoor and there are no blinds in the room that serves as both my living room and bedroom, facing onto the street. Perhaps they were broken by someone who lived here before me. Instead I have stuck baking parchment on the inside of the lower half of the windows, letting in the light but preventing people passing by from seeing in. Before I did that I woke up one morning to ɹnd a man staring in at me, his face ɻoating outside the window like a pink balloon. He walked away as soon as he realized I had seen him, but he might have been standing there for a long time, watching me as I slept. I couldn’t shake oʃ the idea, it was both unpleasant and titillating: perhaps he’s not the only one, I thought. 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