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After Mio's death, Rut built a comfortable life for herself and their son: a seaside house, money, and a job at a mysterious firm that sways the public through made-up voices. The ten-year-old knows nothing of his father, and is safe. Then Rut learns that a comatose boy in hospital carries an old CD player, and on its golden disc Mio is talking, though he ought to be dead, describing roofs with a view of the ocean in a place he calls a library suspended over the void. Told through many voices, the novel deals with companionship and yearning, about who gets mourned, and about the power of fiction, imagined lives and libraries.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

422 pages in the original

First published

2022 by Norstedts

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789113121741 (original)

9781949641691 (Two Lines Press, United States)