Gregorius

The pastor whom Hjalmar Söderberg's Doctor Glas made a byword for hypocrisy and lust, and whose death that novel treats almost as a mercy, here speaks for himself during what will be his final summer. He recalls a boyhood spent being a model son and his secret, guilty passion for Helga, the girl he later marries as his second wife. Learning that she is unfaithful sends him spinning between despair, self-loathing and an odd kind of hope, and at the spa in Porla a different woman offers him some dignity. What emerges is a timid, uncertain man, set in turn-of-the-century Stockholm.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

422 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, c. 1900

First published

2004 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789100104443 (original)

9781846270161 (Portobello Books, United Kingdom)

9780393066524 (W. W. Norton, United States)

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