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The Gravity of Love

English

By (author): Sara Stridsberg

Translated by: Deborah Bragan-Turner

I'll put my head in the oven so you know where I am, he whispers, kissing her neck.

Jim - charming, captivating, much loved by his women friends - has attempted suicide several times. Over his period of incarceration at the Beckomberga hospital for the mentally unstable, he voices his determination to succeed. Some day soon, he tells his daughter - as he has earlier told his mother and his wife - he will swallow sixty tablets, help them down with a bottle of whisky, and swim impossibly far out into the Atlantic.

Will he, really?

This question plagues Jim's daughter, the narrator of this powerful novel, who is as addicted to the hospital as her father is to alcohol. Through her subtle observations we understand the emotional needs of diehard alcoholics, the rationally uxoricidal, and other seemingly normal inhabitants of a psychiatric unit in the process of shutting down, depriving them of the only place they have known as home.

A Magic Mountain for our times, for readers of Eimear McBride and Alexander Masters.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 314g
  • Dimensions: 136 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857054760

About Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg born in 1972 is a writer playwright and former member of the Swedish Academy. Her first novel Happy Sally was published in 2004 and her break-through came two years later with the publication of The Faculty of Dreams her second novel the English translation of which was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2019. Her novels have been translated into 25 languages and she has been shortlisted for the prestigious August Prize three times including in 2012 for her collection of plays Medealand and Other Plays. She lives in Stockholm. Deborah Bragan-Turner is a translator of Swedish literature and a former bookseller and academic librarian. She studied Scandinavian Languages at University College London and her translations include works by Per Olov Enquist and Sara Stridsberg.

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