Antiquity

Elegant, slippery, and provocative,

Antiquity

is a queer

Lolita

story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.

Antiquity

follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helena, after interviewing her for a magazine. Helena invites the narrator to join her in the Greek city of Ermoupoli where she summers with her teenage daughter Olga. At first an object of jealousy, Olga morphs into an object of desire as the pull of Helena is transposed onto her daughter and the prospect of becoming someone's first, if perverse, lover.

With echoes of

Death in Venice

,

Call Me by Your Name

,

The Lover

, and

Lolita

, but wholly original and contemporary,

Antiquity

probes the depths of memory, power, and the narratives that arrange our experience of the world.