I den Röda Damens slott

His father is dead, vanished for good this time, as abruptly as he used to vanish during the narrator's childhood. Emptying the family home and throwing things away, the son is not hunting for the past, yet it surfaces anyway: his father's shady deals, the enormous Chevrolet Impala, Martin from the house next to theirs and his mother covered in bruises, and Doug, who never came but kept sending letters, including a school essay that opened at dawn on Mars as water flowed into the canals. Meanwhile he goes on with a book about Mars and its lost civilisation, which comes to reflect his own lonely search.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

313 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2000 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789100573317 (original)

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