Lars Gustafsson, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator New Pub. Corp. $8.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1240-3
In this amusing and mysterious existential novel, a tile layer named Torsten Bergman labors without supervision to finish renovating a house in Sweden that has been left undone by previous tilers. Like Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill, Torsten...
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Lars Gustafsson, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1395-0
In the first of the 31 terse, cerebral chapters of Swedish writer Gustafsson's 1993 roman noir, Texan federal judge Erwin Caldwell watches the 16mm footage from the film of his birth in order to confirm that he in fact exists. His philosophical and...
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Lars Gustafsson, Author, John Weinstock, Translator, Yvonne L. Sandstroem, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $9.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-8112-0977-9
The ""happy people'' in these 10 short stories, originally published in Sweden in 1981, include a research engineer who is the only person in the town of Trummelsberg to know the latitude and longitude at which he lives and an elderly woman in a...
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Lars Gustafsson, Author, Yvonne L. Sandstroem, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1017-1
This novel opens with the arrest of Jan Bohman, an expatriate Swedish poet turned tourist guide living in Senegal. In prison he ruminates on his past, reviewing early literary successes at home, friendships and loves, particularly a triangle between
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