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Stig Dagerman
A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature–now published for the first time in the United States
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Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. By the 1940s, his fiction, plays, and journalism had catapulted him to the forefront…
Originally published in Swedish in 1949 by Norstedts, Sweden. – ECIP galley.
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
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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…
