skymning: gryning

Somewhere on a boundless plain, a crowd of people keeps walking behind a fair-haired boy and an older figure crowned with withered leaves. Are they bound for death or for a land of promise? They are the cottagers, poor smallholders, road builders and asylum inmates of the earlier books, stuck in a kind of limbo where now and then a single tale steps out, of toil, suffering, insanity or explorers of the polar ice. Their hunt for Life, here or hereafter, pushes them into impossible circumstances, and their hope of something better is at once sensible and mad, in a book that borrows from religious visions, letters home from emigrants and gold-rush stories.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

241 pages in the original

First published

2005 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789100107581 (original)