The Wandering Pine
Life as a Novel
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2017
Summary
What was it about Hjoggbole, a farming village in the northernmost part of Sweden, that created so many idiots - and writers? There was nothing to indicate that P.O. Enquist would be stricken by an addiction to writing. Nothing in his family - honest, hardworking people. Not a trace of poetry. And yet he worked his way, via journalism, novels and plays, to the centre of Swedish politics and cultural life. His books garnered prize after prize. His plays ran for decades and premiered on Broadwa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780870199 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780870191 |
| Author: | Per Olov Enquist, Deborah Bragan-Turner |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 282g |
| Dimensions: | 189mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
‘One of the contemporary novel’s greatest human investigators’ Paul Binding, Independent .
Some life. Some novel … Wonderful, brave, evocative … It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail - Herald
The Wandering Pine, rather like Arthur Miller’s Timebends, is a fascinating portrait of intellectual life during the twentieth century - Times Literary SupplementFascinating … Works best when it feels most like a novel - most obviously in its oblique beginning and end - IndependentA riveting objective autobiography - Church TimesAbout 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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