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Collected Works - 9781662601514
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A compelling mystery and poignant bildungsroman for readers of Karl Ove Knausgård, Collected Works is a novel about love, power, and artand what leads us to make the pivotal decisions that change the course of our lives. Martin Bergs wife, Cecilia, disappeared years ago. His memories of their carefree college days seem ever out of reach, and the intellectual curiosities that once made him the object of her desire have given way to midlife uncertainty. The methodical and quiet life hes made for himself and his adult children couldnt be further from the one he dreamed of in his youth, when the manuscripts lying around his apartment were flush with promise and his ailing publishing house was still new. Perhaps nothing reminds Martin of these failures more than his friend Gustav Becker, a wildly successful painter whos returned to Gothenburg on the eve of his career-defining retrospective. Gustav, meanwhile, is hurting too. His obsession with Cecilias inexplicable disappearance had made his art hagiographic, fixated on her image. When posters for Gustavs retrospective plaster Cecilias face on major billboards across the city, Martins daughter Rakel learns a haunting fact that points toward her mothers whereabouts. She and her brother chase this clue across time, memory, and Europe to discover why Cecilia abandoned her family, with the imagined hope that the question of what makes a person leave can ever be answered. Collected Works, a major hit in Sweden, sold over 100,000 copies in its first year in print, instantly making Lydia Sandgren a literary sensation. Winner of the 2020 August Prize for Fiction, the novel is set to publish in 17 territories.
- | Author: Lydia Sandgren
- | Publisher: Astra House
- | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 608 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1662601514
- | ISBN-13: 9781662601514
- Author:
- Lydia Sandgren
- Publisher:
- Astra House
- Publication Date:
- Jan 31, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 608 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1662601514
- ISBN-13:
- 9781662601514