The wandering pine : life as a novel
Enquist, Per Olov2016
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What was it about Hjoggböle, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champes-Élysées apartment, talking only to his cat? How is it that he wakes to find himself in an uncoupled carriage on a railway siding in Hamburg? Narrating in the third person, as if he were merely a character in the eventful, perplexing and ultimately triumphantly redemptive drama of his own life, P.O. Enquist is as elliptical as Karl Ove Knausgård is exhaustive.
Main title:
The wandering pine : life as a novel / Per Olov Enquist ; translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner.
Author:
Enquist, Per Olov, authorBragan-Turner, Deborah, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2016.London : MacLehose Press, 2016.
Collation:
1 volume ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.
ISBN:
9781780870199 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.7374FICTIONF
Language:
EnglishSwedish
BRN:
2320554