Thanks to Stefan Kasta's novel "Playing Dead" you will find out what the price of friendship is and whether there is an alternative to revenge. Teenager Kimme is between two worlds. One, more intimate, involves evenings in the “gingerbread” house with adoptive parents Christine and Jim, stewed chicken with carrot slices and books. In another, alien to him, there are parties, joint hikes and first love. Trying to join the company for the sake of the girl he is in love with, Kimme goes with his friends to the forest for the weekend. Bird watching. No one could have imagined how this would end for Kimme: he finds himself abandoned in the forest, seriously injured and with little hope of salvation... “Playing Dead” is a book about choice, conscience and the ability to forgive. A novel by Stefan Kasta, winner of the Astrid Lindgren Prize, was awarded the August Prize and the Nils Holgersson Badge of Honor.