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Stig Dagerman
A tense and troubling tale of forbidden love in 1940s Stockholm by one of Sweden’s greatest writers, introduced by Siri Hustvedt
In 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls…
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A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature–now published for the first time in the United States
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Set in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, A Burnt Child revolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother…
The first U.S. edition of Dagerman’s account of postwar life in Germany
