Berget

Dag Ingvarsson, a joiner, goes back to his home town to fit out a room, and in a neighbouring one catches his first sight of Gazzaleh. For most of his life he has been building a cabinet full of moving figures, now produced by villagers in South India, and he is about to travel there when old ties pull him off course: Gazzaleh's child has been kidnapped. Memories of Karlskoga close around him, its founding as the cannon town, a girl called Måd who once lived in that very room, and the three boys who were like brothers in a folk tale: Henning, who joined the workers and turned artist, Benny, who sought the sacred in Israel, and Dag himself.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

420 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, India

First published

2002 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9789100581213 (original)