- August Prize 2019 · Shortlist
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Steve Sem-Sandberg (born 1958)
Translated by Saskia Vogel
English editions
In EnglishW.
The Overlook Press · United States · 28 June 2022 · Hardcover · 352 pages
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A real soldier's crime of jealousy in the early nineteenth century gave Georg Büchner the material for his 1836 play, and this novel returns to the same case. Its hero is an isolated man who signs up to get away from poverty and fights in campaign after campaign. Around him lies a split continent, wrecked by war yet dreaming of an enlightened idea of the individual and society. The book becomes a psychological study of jealousy and war trauma, and an unsparing portrait of a person with no protection.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 421 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Crime (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2019 by Albert Bonniers Förlag
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
9789100176273 (original)
9781419751226 (The Overlook Press, United States)