Summary
The first novel in world-renowned film-maker Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents.
In 1909, Ingmar Bergman’s mother and father first meet. Anna is a nurse from a wealthy family; Henrik, a poor, trainee priest living with his lover. From the intensity of their courtship, to the difficult early years of their marriage, Bergman fictionalises his parents’ life before his birth, drawing the quiet, emotional sensitivity of his filmmaker’s eye dee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784873905 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178487390X |
| Author: | Ingmar Bergman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Bergman’s affecting account of the romance between an upright divinity student and the daughter of an aristocratic family is based on the courtship of his own parents
Bergman’s affecting account of the romance between an upright divinity student and the daughter of an aristocratic family is based on the courtship of his own parents * Publisher’s Weekly *
Lush and devastating at once… The closest thing imaginable to a Bergman film without pictures or sound * The New York Review of Books *
About The Author
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1918. He wrote or directed more than 170 theatrical productions and 60 films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely-regarded as one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th century. Bergman’s trilogy of books - The Best Intentions, Sunday’s Children, and Private Confessions - is based on the life of his parents, and details his own upbringing in early 20th-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.
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