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Hunter in Huskvarna (häftad, eng)
"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bra...
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"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" Christian House, Financial Times
A young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst''s daughter. A police officer''s mistress clandestinely cares for his dying wifeA boy goes missing from the Swedish town of Huskvarna after he was last seen walking with a wolf. From the inside of a dead whale''s belly, to an industrial town emptied out after its factory''s closure, to a Texan prison where a young man visits his sister''s murderer on death row, Stridsberg approaches both the strange and the mundane with a fairy-tale sensibility that lights our world anew.
Time runs through this collection like water, variously ebbing, flowing and rippling beneath the shimmering surface of Stridsberg''s proseThese genre-spanning stories are held together by a sense of longing: for escape from the narrow margins of a prescribed life, for a past which promises an undiscovered future, for a place or a person that feels like home.
Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 288 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Quercus Publishing |
Utgivningsdatum | 2024-01-18 |
ISBN | 9781529423266 |
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- Pocket, 288, Engelska, Quercus, 2024-01-18, 9781529423266
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