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The Sweet Indifference of the World
Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt
Peter Stamm (born 1963)
Translated by Michael Hofmann
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The Sweet Indifference of the World
Other Press · United States · 21 January 2020 · Paperback · 144 pages
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The Sweet Indifference of the World
Granta Books · United Kingdom · 2020 · 144 pages
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To live one's own life again: should one wish for that? In Stockholm, Christoph, a writer who has stopped writing, arranges to meet the much younger actress Lena, a stranger to him, and they walk through the Woodland Cemetery. He tells her that twenty years ago he loved a woman who resembled her, was in fact just like her: Magdalena. He knows the life Lena leads and what awaits her. So begins a game between past and present from which no one will emerge unscathed. Can we escape our fate, or must we resign ourselves to the world's indifference?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 155 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sweden
- First published
- 2018 by S. Fischer Verlag
- Author's age
- 55 when first published
- ISBN
9783103972597 (original)
9781590519790 (Other Press, United States)
9781783785735 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
- More
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