The Saga of the Eel. On the Connection of Generations, Love, and the Road Home

Eels inhabit all over Europe, but they are born and die in one place – in the Sargasso Sea, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

We still know surprisingly little about how and why they make such a long journey. And this is just one of many mysteries of the eel that scientists from different eras, including Aristotle and Freud, have struggled with.

As a child, on magical summer nights, journalist Patrick Svensson caught eels with his father. From these memories, a book emerged in which the author's personal story and that of his family intertwined with the stories of many people who tried to unravel the ancient puzzle: "the question about the eel"?

In exploring the riddle of the eel, the author discovers, in its depths, reflections of the most important questions about ourselves: who we are, where we came from, and where we are heading. And he receives not answers, but something greater – a moonlit road home.