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30%OFFPer Olov Enquist - The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel - 9780857051707 - V9780857051707
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The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel

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Description for The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel Hardback. An autobiographical novel from Sweden's greatest living writer. Translator(s): Bragan-Turner, Deborah. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.

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 Hjoggböle, 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
663g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857051707
SKU
V9780857051707
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Ref
99-10

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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel
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
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel


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