Cecilia, muse to painter Gustav Becker and wife to publisher Martin Berg, is missing. It's a fact her children Rakel and Elis have long accepted, until one day, when Martin asks his daughter to translate a promising German novel, and Rakel discovers a connection to her lost mother within the text. At the same time, haunting images of Cecilia from Gustav's new retrospective are erected all over town. A magnificent, sprawling tour of 1980s Sweden, Collected Works is a blockbuster Swedish novel you won't want to miss. (RR)