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Available
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Publication
Stockholm : Norstedt, 2010
Description
The woman had come from a city in the south to lecture in a small village amid the snowbound forests of northern Sweden. She was a writer. After the lecture in the village hall an old man who had been sleeping at the back introduced himself, as she was to be his guest for the night. So it was that she moved in with Hadar, a man who lived on his own and was in the last stages of cancer. Not another house in sight, save for one just a field away; there lived Hadar's brother Olof, also on his own, and dying of heart disease. Neither brother would consent to die, the woman discovered, for that would give the satisfaction of outliving him.
Awards
Bernard Shaw Prize (Runner-Up — 2003)
Nordisk Råds litteraturpris (Nominee — 1996)
Augustpriset (Nominee — 1995)
Language
Original publication date
1995
Physical description
166 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
9789113034775