Based on true events, Sweden takes readers on an exhilarating journey from the killing fields of Vietnam to a fogbound fishing port on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, with stops along the way at a hippie commune in Japan's subtropical south and a student-occupied university in Tokyo. Sweden is your passport to discover a part of American history you never knew.
Matthew Turner was born in Greytown, New Zealand, in 1961. He was educated at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where he gained a BA (Hons) in Japanese, and at Nagoya University and Keio University in Japan. He enjoys listening to jazz music and traveling on foot, and occasionally writes about these and other subjects at www.thewalkingfool.blogspot.