- August Prize 2017 · Winner
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears
De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar
Johannes Anyuru (born 1979)
Translated by Saskia Vogel
English editions
In EnglishThey Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears
Two Lines Press · United States · 2020 · Paperback · 272 pages
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears
Two Lines Press · United States · November 2019 · Hardcover
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On a winter night, three supporters of the collapsing Daesh force their way into a bookshop where a provocative artist is giving a talk. A gunshot stops him mid-sentence and the whole audience is held captive. One of the attackers, a young woman assigned to film it all, is hiding something, and in the chaos she murmurs that they must leave. Two years on, an author visits her in a secure psychiatric unit. She knows his books and hands over a stack of handwritten pages with an extraordinary tale: she says she is from the future. A novel of hope and despair in present-day Europe, loyalty and betrayal, and the staging of terror.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 300 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics, Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sweden
- First published
- 2017 by Norstedts
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9789113073132 (original)
9781931883894 (Two Lines Press, United States)
9781949641080 (Two Lines Press, United States)
- More
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