“Time doesn’t go quite the way you think” - this is how the story of the Swedish writer and journalist, winner of the August Prize for the best non-fiction (2011) and the award to them. Ryszard Kapuschinsky for the best literary report (2013) Elisabeth Osbrink. In his biography of 1947, the year in which the rebuilding of post-war Europe began, the colonies gained independence and women were emancipated, the foundations of the Cold War were laid and slow-acting mines were laid in the Middle East, Osbrink intersperses quotations from the press and published sources, oral memoirs and interviews with a masterfully constructed lyrical speech of the narrator, sometimes an impartial observer, sometimes a sympathetic interlocutor.The publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format.