Mig äger ingen

The narrator's father, Leif, works hardening metal at the Metallverken plant in Västerås and raises her on his own. He pictures neighbours glancing up at their tidy window and imagining a model housewife lives there. She draws him with love and wit: big-hearted and devoted to her, yet with his failings and his fondness for the bottle. Around them stands a colourful working-class clan that jokes its way through hard times, and behind them the rise and decline of Sweden's welfare state and its labour movement, while the girl wavers between wanting more and dreading being noticed.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

293 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2007 by Atlas

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789173892261 (original)

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