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The Family Clause

Pappaklausulen

Jonas Hassen Khemiri (born 1978)

Translated by Alice Menzies

English editions

In English

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Once a year a father who abandoned his family long ago flies back to Sweden from abroad and moves into the small flat his son keeps as an office. The son is approaching forty and on paternity leave, drowning in diapers, daycare drop-offs, groceries and broken nights, and he wants to stop acting as his father's personal assistant, bank and landlord. His sister has her own scars from their parents' divorce. Each member of the family takes a turn telling the story, down to a baby too young to speak, as the old arrangement between father and son is put to the test.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
364 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Sweden
First published
2018 by Albert Bonniers förlag
Author's age
40 when first published
ISBN

9789100176303 (original)

9780374134327 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781250798749 (Picador, United States)

9781784709563 (Vintage, United Kingdom)