En simtur i sundet

A fine September day in 1999 on the nearly empty white sands at Skanör, the new Öresund Bridge standing ready but still unused. Vera, an accomplished swimmer, strikes out for the open water while her partner, Göran Sager-Larsson, a reluctant bather, watches and feels every one of the fifteen years he has on her. Now over sixty, he feels less settled and reflective than he did at forty, right in the thick of things. His mind wanders from driving lessons, mahjong nights and readings in New York to failures as a parent, protest marches and mine clearance in Bosnia, in a sharply funny look at modern couples.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

280 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden, 1999

First published

2003 by Norstedts

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9789113011844 (original)