- August Prize 2008 · Winner
The Wandering Pine
Ett annat liv
Per Olov Enquist (born 1934)
Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner
English editions
In EnglishThe Wandering Pine
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 8 December 2016 · Paperback
The Wandering Pine
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 1 January 2015 · Hardcover · 391 pages
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Referring to himself only as "he", as Strindberg once did in his own autobiography, the author recounts a boyhood in the Västerbotten village of Hjoggböle: no father, a mother who taught at the school, a teetotal youth group and a gift for the high jump, and many hours alone drawing maps. A world that once ended at Bureå later stretched to Berlin, New York, Paris and Copenhagen, and one of his plays reached Broadway. Then, at the peak of his success, came a deepening crisis of drink and writer's block, and the question of how a life going so right could go so wrong.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 529 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sweden, Germany, United States, France, Denmark
- First published
- 2008 by Norstedts
- Author's age
- 74 when first published
- ISBN
9789113018935 (original)
9780857051707 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
9781780870199 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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