"The love that dare not speak its name . . ." Sweden, 1949. A boy
of 15, cutting across a garden, chances upon a woman of 51. What
ensues is cataclysmic, life-altering. All the more because it
cannot be spoken of. Can it never be spoken of? Looking back in
late old age at an encounter that transformed him suddenly yet
utterly, P.O. Enquist, a titan of Swedish letters, has decided to
"come out" - but in ways entirely novel and unexpected. He has
written the book that smoldered unwritten within him his entire
life. The book he had always seen as the one he could not write.
This poignant memoir of love as a religious experience - as a
modern form of the Resurrection - is also a deeply felt reflection
on the transitoriness of friendship, the fraught nature of family
relationships, and the importance of giving voice to what cannot be
forgotten. A parable as hauntingly intense as any Bergman film.
Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
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