Heart s Delight opens with a 16-year-old boy poised over a desk. He is alone in the room, going through the left over items of a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Ann-Kathrin. As he systematically destroys each object, he replays a scene from their relationship that relates to it. By the end of this moving story, he has gotten rid of everything; he s torn up the bus pass from the station where they met, blown the unused condoms into balloons and set them adrift from his balcony, and dropped the pot of lemon balm tea she gave him from the balcony, too. Along the way, Per Nilsson carefully traces their tumultuous relationship, from their first hopeful meeting, to the boy s loneliness when his family was away and she never called, to her betrayal of him with a rival. Nilsson s skill in revealing the innermost thoughts of a teenage boy at a vulnerable time in his life made this an award-winning book in Europe."

 

There are 155 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Front Street Inc .

Per Nilsson was born in Malmo, Sweden, and currently lives in Solvesborg. He has written more than twenty books for young people, many of which have won awards. He has also written several plays and the screenplay for a movie based on one of his novels. His books have been translated into sixteen languages. Tara Chace is a Norwegian instructor and freelance translator. She lives in Seattle.