Anita Goldman was born in 1953 to parents who had fled to Sweden in 1943. She grew up in a Jewish home in Göteborg, Sweden’s second city. ‘My sister and I were the only ones in the school who were dark and looked different,’ she has written. When she was nineteen she moved to Stockholm to go to journalism school and subsequently published her first book in 1978. For more than twenty years she lived in Israel and reported back to Sweden about daily life in an eternally war-threatened land, employing a journalistic style that has been compared with the political reportage of the Stockholm-based Croatian author Slavenka Drakulic. A few years ago she returned to Stockholm with her husband, a former elite Israeli soldier, and her two children. She is a journalist in Södra and has published several novels, a recent one being Mållös (Goalless, 2000). She also has a stepson in New York, the setting for the following ironic but somehow sympathetic portrait of the ex-Israeli parachutist who has settled in Brooklyn.