Torgny Lindgren, Author Harvill Press $13 (144p) ISBN 978-1-86046-656-4
Guilt, resentment and rivalry animate Lindgren's sparkling parable, a darkly humorous tale of two brothers and the tangled ties that bind them. In the remote reaches of northern Sweden, an unnamed traveling writer and lecturer on saints finds...
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Torgny Lindgren, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-06-016229-0
These 14 modern folktales, set for the most part in isolated, pre-20th-century Swedish villages and farms, powerfully depict the plight of rural peasants. A stern moralist as well as an accomplished storyteller, Lindgren ( Bathsheba ) pits his...
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Torgny Lindgren, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Tom Geddes. Overlook $23.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-58567-408-4
Two seekers pursue the perfect plate of hash, and, by extension, the force of life in Lindgren's sparkling novel (after Bathsheba
and The Way of the Serpent
). In 1947, a newspaper reporter is fired for fabricating stories ("The dramatic...
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Torgny Lindgren, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator Harvill Press $24 (236p) ISBN 978-0-00-271171-5
This provocative and amusing fable by the author of Bathsheba begins when a pregnant rabbit brings the Great Sickness to the village of Kadis in northern Sweden. All that remains after the plague are three men and three women, empty houses, a few...
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Torgny Lindgren, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator Harvill Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-00-271255-2
Veering from absurdist farce to social satire, this dazzlingly inventive, entertaining novel from Swedish author Lindgren (Light) plays relentlessly upon the theme of authenticity and artifice, illusion and reality. After picture framer/art dealer...
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Torgny Lindgren, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator Panther Press (TN) $10 (112p) ISBN 978-1-86046-261-0
""Unto him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath."" As the narrator suggests, that is the inescapable conclusion of this slim, moving parable about a Swedish...
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Torgny Lindgren, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator HarperCollins Publishers $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-015963-4
If there are only a few basic plots in the world, the story of David and Bathsheba contains elements of them all: incest and family pride, lust for power and abasement before God, fratricide and fraternal devotion, cunning and guilelessness. In this
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