Lit in Translation

Collected Works

Samlade verk

Lydia Sandgren (born 1987)

Translated by Agnes Broomé

English editions

In English

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A large retrospective of Gustav Becker, a painter active since the 1980s, is about to open in Gothenburg. The psychology student Rakel cannot escape the poster pasted across the city, because it shows Cecilia, the mother who disappeared without explanation. Her father, Martin Berg, a publisher, is meanwhile thrown into upheaval. The novel moves through underground bars, cheap pubs and libraries, around a love triangle with the missing Cecilia at its centre. It is about lasting friendship, love and art, about the line between invention and truth, and about class and modern life in Gothenburg.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
689 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Sweden
First published
2020 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
Author's age
33 when first published
ISBN

9789100180409 (original)

9781662601514 (Astra House, United States)

9781782277989 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)

9781782278009 (Pushkin Press, United Kingdom)

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