Tio syskon i en ömtålig berättelse

The Haverdalius siblings, ten of them, sons and daughters of a business dynasty, led lives that could hardly differ more, yet every one has ended up in heaven. From up there the dead family shouts its inheritance down to the younger relatives still looking for meaning, insisting that certain things must never go into a book. The narrator heads straight for those unspoken things: buttoned-up lives, locked-away dreams, inherited hurts and failings. The novel portrays the clan, its era and its trade, and is also about how hard, and how compelling, it is to write.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

318 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2000 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789100573553 (original)