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Claire Brétecher's sharp-eyed humor gets a handsome Swedish-language showcase in this Cobolt collection, De frustrerade. The cover sets the tone perfectly: two spindly, expressive figures rendered in vivid purple sit across a table from each other, a bottle and glasses between them, their body language radiating the kind of strained, wordless tension only Brétecher could make so funny. It's a deceptively simple image that promises exactly the wit and social observation her work has always delivered.