I en skog av sumak

Dan Schoultze turns up one day at a big, notorious Stockholm school, in a long coat, sharply pressed trousers and gleaming leather shoes, dressed like a grown-up who refuses every tribe. The Vietnam War dominates the news, and a slogan demanding everything at once has been painted near the entrance. Kenneth Jansson, who tells the story, becomes close to Dan and to Dan's sister. The two of them live by themselves in a large villa next to a stand of sumac, an exotic tree whose leaves resemble cannabis, which, it emerges, is being grown underneath. Parents never appear. Through the summer the three of them lounge in a shack among the trees, hazy with smoke. But the faraway war does not leave them untouched, and each must choose a side.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

266 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2017 by Natur & Kultur

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9789127151475 (original)