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A nameless woman, in a time and place that are never named, is forever chasing joy, love and true artistic force, and to get there she obeys a severe code of her own making. As she makes her way through desire, relationships and practical work, she draws passers-by, a child and a series of men into her tangled system. The prose itself is held in check and returns again and again to the same patterns, with tension crackling beneath. Gently absurd, the book weighs the clashes between living as a woman and working as an artist, and charts a doubtful escape from confinement.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

175 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Wahlström & Widstrand

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789146217527 (original)