Världens sista roman

The narrator, a hard-drinking author and TV presenter who shares the writer's name, watches Alzheimer's dismantle his alcoholic mother's mind and speech, and the novel takes that collapse into its very form. Two old friends, the rest of a youthful threesome, are close by. His mother once ended a pregnancy, and now the baby he and his partner are expecting is found to be malformed and is lost before birth. Racing and dizzying, the book keeps the reader guessing about how much of this really happened.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

372 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2007 by Norstedts

Author's age

30 when first published

ISBN

9789113016689 (original)

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