Collected Works: A Novel
Lydia Sandgren author Agnes Broomé translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:2nd May '24
Should be back in stock very soon
'HOW CAN ANYONE LEAVE SOMEONE THEY LOVE?' Martin Berg is falling into crisis. Decades ago, he was an aspiring writer, his girlfriend was the wildly intelligent Cecilia Wickner, and his best friend was the hellraising artist Gustav Becker. But Martin's manuscript is now languishing in a drawer, Gustav has stopped answering his calls, and Cecilia has vanished - leaving him to raise their children alone. Cecilia: an eccentric wife and absent mother, a woman who was perhaps only true to herself. When Rakel stumbles across a clue as to why her mother left, she sets out to fill the gaps in her family's story and discovers that some questions have no clear answers...
'Meet Sweden's Sally Rooney . . . a love-triangle, arty chit-chat, and lots of snow and sex . . . Sandgren strikes a nice balance between comedy and coming of age . . . A lovely atmosphere to lose yourself in . . . Gorgeous and heightened and full of glittering, icy people' - The Times
'A wry bestseller that reads like the effortlessly chic European cousin of Fleishman is in Trouble . . . Sandgren has a sly eye for comedy . . . Part bildungsroman, part psychological mystery and part family saga . . . embraces the mess, misunderstandings and inscrutabilities that constitute peoples real people living real lives . . . A novel to savour' - Telegraph
'Utterly gripping... like the films of Richard Linklater transmuted to the page... a magnificent doorstop of a novel' - Guardian
'A witty, toothy, family saga... a confidently ambitious work that holds art, literature and philosophy close to its heart... an assured, bittersweet novel that, like youth, seems to have it all' - Financial Times
'A wide-ranging exploration of family and friends, art and ambition that more than lives up to the hype' - Marie-Claire, Best New Books of 2023
ISBN: 9781782278009
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736 pages