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“The Last Survivor Is Dead” (title translated by AI)
Mattis Øybø (born 1971)
English editions
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Lives are woven around Isak Meyer, a young Jewish student who flees to Sweden in 1942. His grandson Jonathan, about to become a father, must face the past at Christmas. Louise and Henrik find old letters in the house they are renovating, revealing a forbidden wartime love, and a young mother's secret comes out. A novel about how history is told and carried on.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 257 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Norway, Sweden
- First published
- 2021 by Forlaget Oktober
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9788249523313 (original)