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The Gravity of Love

Af: Sara Stridsberg Engelsk Paperback

The Gravity of Love

Af: Sara Stridsberg Engelsk Paperback
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A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden''s most exciting literary talents

"I''ll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck.

Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic.

Will he, really?

This question plagues Jim''s daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home.

A Magic Mountain for our times, for readers of Eimear McBride and Alexander Masters.

Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

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A dazzlingly inventive and acclaimed novel set in a Stockholm psychiatric hospital - by one of Sweden''s most exciting literary talents

"I''ll put my head in the oven so you know where I am," he whispers, kissing her neck.

Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic.

Will he, really?

This question plagues Jim''s daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home.

A Magic Mountain for our times, for readers of Eimear McBride and Alexander Masters.

Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780857054784
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0857054783
Kategori: Sweden
Udg. Dato: 30 maj 2019
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato: 30 maj 2019
Forfatter(e): Sara Stridsberg
Forfatter(e) Sara Stridsberg

Kategori Sweden

ISBN-13 9780857054784

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 130mm

Udg. Dato 30 maj 2019

Oplagsdato 30 maj 2019

Forlag Quercus Publishing

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