About the book: 2020 / Every night Maya sets the alarm for ten minutes to two. At this time, very close by, tons of explosives are shaking the rock layers. You need to be on your guard to save your parents and sister when the house begins to go underground. Maya lives in Kiruna, an industrial city in northern Sweden. The iron ore mine is gradually being expanded, and the city authorities are relocating entire neighborhoods. Houses in which generations have lived are disappearing... Maya is not ready for such changes. Sinkholes, the relocation of her best friend, her first love - all this falls on her like a natural disaster. In an attempt to cope with anxiety, doubt and despair, she films a series of videos about Kiruna, which is fading into history, and finally decides to go down into the mine to face her fears head-on. Anne-Helen Laestadius (born 1971) - journalist and writer, lives in a suburb of Stockholm. The psychological drama Ten Minutes to Two, which received the August Prize, brought her real success. Laestadius discusses how the place where you were born and raised influences your attitude and destiny. The painful search for the path of life is superimposed on the heightened perception of the world, which is why you believe every feeling described here from the first page.