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Westra Härad, a corner of Småland, lives by its own unhurried clock. Tjippen, Jyro, Hannele, Pjäta and their friends dig peat on the bog and claim their lives as their own. The local faith preaches eternal fire and frightens some of the children half to death, but there are free-thinkers about, and the woods and moors offer endless places to vanish into. Ballads, chants and bits of country lore are threaded into a half-legendary tapestry in which talk and tales turn the underdog into the master. Then the book jumps to a time just ahead of ours: a crew of comic, sorry vagrants roams a country where people and land are still being stripped, the oceans have climbed and the Western world is unsteady.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

335 pages in the original

Set in

Sweden, 1970s

First published

2009 by Norstedts

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789113025308 (original)