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Item Details
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BREATHLESS
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| By: |
Anne Sward, Deborah Bragan-Turner (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857051032 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857051035 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
29 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Translated from: |
Swedish |
| Description: |
Breathless is an evocative novel of childhood and adolescence in 1960s Sweden. |
| Synopsis: |
Lo's parents did not plan for her. They were not married and never loved each other. Lo is raised by her extended family in a ramshackle house they share in southern Sweden. She enjoys a sheltered, idyllic, safe childhood, but everything changes when, at six years old, she makes a new friend. Lukas is thirteen and came from Hungary with his father when he was five. He struggles at school and has no companions of his own age. A fire in a field brings them together, when Lukas helps the family contain the blaze, and the two become inseparable. But Lo's family are deeply suspicious of Lukas' motives for befriending such a young girl. The two are compelled to meet in secret, sleeping side by side in a shed by the lake every summer. For Lo's fifteenth birthday, Lukas buys a car to take her to the Tivoli pleasure gardens in Copenhagen. Her senses dulled by the rides and fairy lights and by having a little to drink, Lo falls early to sleep, and wakes to find their lives and friendship changed for ever. Breathless is a beautifully controlled, evocative novel of childhood and adolescence in 1960s Sweden.Anna Sward has chosen a challenging theme, and has succeeded in crafting a narrative of breathtaking accomplishment. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
MacLehose Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Bokcirklar Stora Lasarpriset 2010. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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