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The Ravens
Korparna
Tomas Bannerhed (born 1966)
Translated by Sarah Death
English editions
In EnglishThe Ravens
Clerkenwell Press · United Kingdom · 2014 · Paperback · 411 pages
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The little farm called Undantaget has been handed from father to son for generations, and Klas's father will not be the one to break the line: the boy, twelve, is to inherit it. But the stony fields never give enough, and the grinding work pushes the father steadily towards insanity, until the whole household is under terrible pressure. Klas, increasingly afraid, escapes into birdwatching and into his friendship with Veronika, whose parents have left the city to live off the land. The novel captures a rural Sweden caught between the sixties and the seventies, and what it costs to be unlike everyone else in a tight-knit place.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 414 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Coming of age, Nature (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sweden, 1970s
- First published
- 2011 by Weyler
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9789185849543 (original)
9781846688997 (Clerkenwell Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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