Collected Works

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Synopsis
A compelling mystery, a poignant bildungsroman, and a work of great nostalgia for times just past, COLLECTED WORKS is a novel about love, power and art—and what leads us to make the pivotal decisions that change the course of our lives.Martin Berg's wife, Cecilia, disappeared years ago. His memories of their carefree college days seem ever out-of-reach, and the intellectual curiosities that once made him the object of her desire have given way to mid-life uncertainty. The methodical and quiet life he&’s made for himself and his adult children couldn&’t be further from the one he dreamed of in his youth, when the manuscripts lying around his apartment were flush with promise and the ailing publishing house he runs was still new. Perhaps nothing reminds Martin of these failures more than his friend Gustav Becker, a wildly successful painter who&’s returned to Gothenburg on the eve of his career-defining retrospective.Gustav, meanwhile, is hurting too. His obsession with Cecilia&’s inexplicable disappearance had made his art hagiographic, fixated on her image. When posters for Gustav&’s retrospective plaster Cecilia&’s face on major billboards across the city, Martin&’s daughter Rakel learns a haunting fact that points toward her mother&’s whereabouts. She and her brother chase this clue across time, memory, and Europe, to discover why their beloved mother abandoned her family, with the imagined hope that the question of what makes a person can ever be answered.COLLECTED WORKS, a major hit in Sweden, sold over 100,000 copies in its first year in print, instantly making Lydia Sandgren a literary sensation. Winner of the 2020 August Prize for Fiction, the novel is set to publish in 17 territories.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
608 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781662601521
Related ISBNs:
9781662601514
Publisher:
Astra Publishing House
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Lydia Sandgren
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Language Arts, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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