Polarsommar

Kristian comes home after two years to look after Kaj, his twenty-two-year-old sister, guileless and impossible to predict, the reason their father walks out. Over a few tense weeks of summer by the shore, voices from the whole family take turns: Kristian, still tied to the women in his life; Jens, whose anger he cannot rein in; Ingrid, the mother who will not take sides. Behind an ordinary front, hopes left unmet and betrayals slowly wear the family down.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

206 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2003 by Wahlström & Widstrand

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9789146202592 (original)