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When the husband she loved, and who loved her, dies, sixty-year-old Lola loses the will to live and turns back to the past. Going over her life as a woman and all it demanded of her, she questions motherhood, family and the way society treats women. At the centre is her tangled bond with her daughter Tina: the novel takes apart the relationship between mother and daughter and asks how parental love, which gives so many lives their meaning, can also enslave and wreck them. There is adultery and sex, betrayals large and small, the loss of those closest to her, and a killing: Lola, it emerges, was to blame for someone's death. Quieter and more melancholy than the author's earlier novels, it dares to touch the greatest taboo, the love of one's children.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

219 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2022 by V.B.Z.

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9789535205128 (original)