A FAMILY. TWO WORLDS. A LEGACY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
Hasse Kahn was a celebrated Swedish jazz violinist. His daughter Victoria became an actress, singer, choreographer and theatre director. His son Michael "Mischa" Kahn became one of Scandinavia's most accomplished thoroughbred trainers.
And then there was Rigmor Kahn?the woman remembered as the Ice Princess, the Mafia Queen, a watchmaker by training and a figure who moved through worlds most people never saw.
Between these lives grew Hans Alexander Kahn, known as Boyu, the little prince of Oslo.
Between Two Worlds ? The Kahn Legacy is a memoir and family biography about the people, places and circumstances that shaped him.
It moves from Stockholm's jazz scene and Scandinavian horse racing to Oslo's shadow economy, family loyalties, friendships, criminal proceedings, deaths, fractured relationships and the eventual move to Malta.
But this is not simply a catalogue of extraordinary people or extraordinary events.
It is a story about what happens when a family crosses worlds that rarely meet?and what a child absorbs while growing up inside them.
Told from the inside, and assembled from personal memory, family testimony, contemporary journalism, racing archives, programmes and public records, the book deliberately separates documented fact from family recollection and unresolved claims.
The result is neither a polished family legend nor a sympathy piece.
It is a record of a family that contained musicians, actors, athletes, watchmakers, criminals, outsiders, loyalists and survivors?and of one man trying to understand all of them without reducing any of them to a single story.
Music. Horses. Oslo. Sweden. Love. Loyalty. Loss. The underworld.
And what survives.
