Band II

Laid out like a reference book of rural trades, with entries running from Gabbro to Löväng, this novel pieces together a forsaken corner of Dalarna in the 1920s. Its people, floaters of timber, charcoal makers and woodcutters, live with almost nothing yet make their lives richer through invention or stubbornness, like the man who takes up flower-growing in order to win a bride. Figures and countryside from the author's first novel return, and chapter by chapter the catalogue turns into a portrait of a place where scripture-like visions and plain farm work exist side by side.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

174 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 1920s

First published

2002 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789100580377 (original)