The Wandering Pine
Life as a Novel
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2015
Summary
The Wandering Pine starts off in a little green house in the Vasterbotten province of northern Sweden. It ends with Enquist’s return, both to writing and to another kind of life, after several despondent years. The pages in between describe -with humour, warmth and endless wonderment -his rise, his fall and his redemptive resurgence.
Enquist spends much of his adult life travelling and living abroad -Berlin, New York, Paris, Copenhagen. But the success that has skyrocketed hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857051707 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857051709 |
| Author: | Per Olov Enquist, Deborah Bragan-Turner |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 660g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 166mm x 35mm |
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One of the contemporary novel’s greatest human investigators - Paul Binding, Independent
A deeply impressive book. It is strictly restrained and musically flowing, in perfect musical balance with its subject, written in a rhythmic manner, darkly serious, but also ruggedly humorous. Despite a bubbling excess of events, the direction is clear - down into the darkness, in towards the core - ExpressenAbout The Author
Per Olov Enquist
Per Olov Enquist was born in 1934 in a small village in Norrland, the northern part of Sweden. He is one of Sweden’s leading contemporary writers, both as a novelist and a playwright. He has twice won the August Prize for fiction, the most prestigious Swedish literary prize, and was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Visit of the Royal Physician.
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