Lit in Translation

Lang

Lang

Kjell Westö (born 1961)

Translated by Ebba Segerberg

English editions

In English

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Christian Lang writes novels, but the public knows him mainly as the host of a TV chat show. Even as a teenager he was envied for his success with girls. When his story starts, one November night, his luck has run out. A narrator, who heard Lang tell it himself, reconstructs the events after everything is over. Set in today's Helsinki, with real public figures making cameo appearances, the book reads like a thriller but is really about obsessive passion, growing older, sex and the hold of the past on its people.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
196 pages in the original
Genres
Love, Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Finland
First published
2002 by Söderström & Co
Author's age
41 when first published
ISBN

9789515220196 (original)

9781843431480 (Harvill Press, United Kingdom)

9780786717248 (Carroll & Graf, United States)

9780099464365 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9781846559129 (Harvill Press, United Kingdom)

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