Vejen til paradis: En etnografisk fiktion om familiedynamik, ældreomsorg og antropologisk vidensproduktion

“The road to paradise” is an ethnographic fiction, situated somewhere in the space between ethnographic data and literary writing. The first part is a story about a Pakistani migrant family in Denmark that explores the complex, con-tradictory and often forbidden feelings we may be confronted with when a close family member is struck by serious illness or, as in this case, grow old and experience failing physical abilities and dementia, and therefore needs to be cared for. The second part is a staged interview in which the author, Mikkel Rytter, explains his text and writing tech-niques and discusses the potentials of ethnographic fiction in anthropological knowledge production – but as the interview proceeds, the reliability of the author becomes a central theme.