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The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel
Per Olov Enquist
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Description for The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel
Paperback. An autobiographical novel from Sweden's greatest living writer. Translator(s): Bragan-Turner, Deborah. Num Pages: 400 pages, Sweden. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 231 x 2. Weight in Grams: 278.
A blisteringly frank autobiographical novel by Sweden's great man of letters - for readers of K. O. Knausgaard's My Struggle. Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail Herald When everything began so well, how could it turn out so badly? What was it about Hjoggboele, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadway. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Elysees apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg, two - or was it three? - days after the first-night party finished? And what is it that drives him to run shoeless through the deep January snow of an Icelandic plain, leaving the lights of the drying out clinic far behind? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgaard is exhaustive. Clear-eyed, rueful, written with elegance and humour, this is the singular story of a remarkable man.
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
278g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780870199
SKU
V9781780870199
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About Per Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist was born in 1934 in a small village in Norrland, the northern part of Sweden. He is one of Sweden's leading contemporary writers, both as a novelist and a playwright. He has twice won the August Prize for fiction, the most prestigious Swedish literary prize, and was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Visit of the Royal Physician.
Reviews for The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel
'One of the contemporary novel's greatest human investigators' Paul Binding, Independent.
Independent
'A deeply impressive book' Expressen.
Expressen
A riveting objective autobiography
Peggy Woodford
Church Times
Fascinating . . . Works best when it feels most like a novel - most obviously in its oblique beginning and end
James Kidd
Independent
The Wandering Pine, rather like Arthur Miller's Timebends, is a fascinating portrait of intellectual life during the twentieth century
Kate Webb
Times Literary Supplement
Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail
Russell Leadbetter
Herald
Independent
'A deeply impressive book' Expressen.
Expressen
A riveting objective autobiography
Peggy Woodford
Church Times
Fascinating . . . Works best when it feels most like a novel - most obviously in its oblique beginning and end
James Kidd
Independent
The Wandering Pine, rather like Arthur Miller's Timebends, is a fascinating portrait of intellectual life during the twentieth century
Kate Webb
Times Literary Supplement
Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail
Russell Leadbetter
Herald