Bloody Awful in Different Ways

During a huge fight in a house in the woods near Norrköping at Christmas 1983, a mother lets slip that seven-year-old Andrev has a different father, a long-haired man in a distant country. To the boy this is thrilling news, like a story where a child finds out he is secretly a prince and waits to be carried off to his kingdom. Nobody comes to fetch him. What comes instead is a succession of new men, seven in seven years, none of them his. Growing up amid the leftovers of the 1968 generation, with women swearing about men by the cooker hood and a hamster meeting a grisly fate, the boy studies the male of the species at close range.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

376 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 1980s

First published

2023 by Bokförlaget Polaris

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789177952008 (original)

9780241720288 (Fig Tree, United Kingdom)

9781405971270 (Penguin Books, United Kingdom)

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