To Mervas

For years Marta has kept to herself. Then a letter arrives from Mervas, a place she has never come across, written by Kostis, whom she loved when young and has not heard from in two decades. His few lines hit her like a gust of wind and bring back grief for a life gone wrong. Looking back, she recalls a childhood ruled by a brutal father, the sudden end of her affair with Kostis and the bleak years raising a disabled child alone. At last she travels north to the deserted mining town, helped along by strangers who appear as if from a fairy tale.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

252 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2002 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789100580445 (original)

9780981987378 (Archipelago Books, United States)