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Hunter in Huskvarna
Sara Stridsberg; Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner
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Discovery Miles 2 630
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With stunning subtlety and precision, these eleven stories embrace
contradiction and transport us to in-between realms: between
tenderness and violence, between the dreamlike and the
excruciatingly real, between childlike wonder and ancient wisdom. A
young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst's daughter. A
police officer's mistress clandestinely cares for his dying wife. A
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 lyrical prose. These 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
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The Summer Of Diving (Hardcover)
Sara Stridsberg; Translated by B.J. Woodstein; Illustrated by Sara Lundberg
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Discovery Miles 3 750
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"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times "Stridsberg writes with
chilling poise" New York Times "A haunting portrait of the starkest
meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's literary talent left me
awestruck" KATE REED PETTY, author of True Story **A Financial
Times Book of the Year 2021** They say you die three times. The
first time for me was when my heart stopped beating beneath his
hands by the lake. The second was when what was left of me was
lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Bromma
Church. The third will be the last time my name is spoken on earth.
Inni lives her life on the margins, but it is a life that is full
and complex, filled with different shades of dark and light...
Until she is brutally murdered one summer's day, on a lake shore at
the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest. On the surface, this is
the story of the moment her life is violently extinguished - a
moment that will never end, not ever - but it is also about the
time before, and about the lives that carry on afterwards. It's
about her children, her parents, her childhood of neglect, her
volatile adolescence, and the chain of choices, tragedies and
accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into
the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with
the wrong person. Sara Stridsberg's new novel is about absolute
vulnerability, brutality and isolation. At times disturbing, this
is a devastating story of unexpected love, tenderness and light in
the total darkness. Translated from Swedish by Deborah
Bragan-Turner
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La Antartida del Amor
Sara Stridsberg
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Discovery Miles 5 650
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"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times "Stridsberg writes with
chilling poise" New York Times "A haunting portrait of the starkest
meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's literary talent left me
awestruck" KATE REED PETTY, author of True Story **A FINANCIAL
TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021** Inside me was voiceless silence,
above me only bare defenceless sky and beneath me the earth's
unrelenting gravity, pulling me down The moment of Inni's death
will never end. Not ever. Murdered one summer's day on a lake shore
at the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest, she tells the story
of the moment her life was violently extinguished by an anonymous
man. But amidst that moment of death lies the story of what came
before, and of the lives that carry on afterwards. This is the
story of her children, her parents and the chain of choices,
tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and
take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the
wrong car with the wrong person. The Antarctica of Love is the
unflinching testimony of a woman on the margins, giving voice to
the voiceless and offering an insight into depths of absolute
vulnerability, brutality and isolation. Hauntingly beautiful yet at
times disturbing, this is a devastating story of unexpected love,
tenderness and light in the total darkness. Translated from Swedish
by Deborah Bragan-Turner
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The Gravity of Love (Paperback)
Sara Stridsberg; Translated 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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