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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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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
'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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more