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Hunter in Huskvarna
Sara Stridsberg
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Description for Hunter in Huskvarna
Paperback.
"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" Christian House, Financial Times
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Quercus MacLehose Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529423266
SKU
9781529423266
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg, born in 1972, is a writer, playwright and former member of the Swedish Academy. Her first novel, Happy Sally, was published in 2004, and her break-through came two years later with the publication of The Faculty of Dreams, her second novel, the English translation of which was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2019. Her novels have ... Read more
Reviews for Hunter in Huskvarna
There's a dreamy quality to these death-stalked tales from Swedish author Stridsberg, which marry old-world mysteriousness to modern sensibilities
Daily Mail
Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner...This is storytelling with an eye for the uncanny
Christian House
Financial Times
Daily Mail
Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner...This is storytelling with an eye for the uncanny
Christian House
Financial Times