{"product_id":"a-burnt-child-a-novel-9780816677993","title":"A Burnt Child  A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, \u003ci\u003eA Burnt Child \u003c\/i\u003erevolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. Written in a taut and beautifully naturalistic tone, it remains Stig Dagerman’s most widely read novel and is one of the crowning works of his short but celebrated career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A writer of uncommon urgency and power.\" —Siri Hustvedt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion.\" —Graham Greene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are some writers (Kafka and Lorca immediately spring to mind) who come to enjoy the status of saint; their lives and deaths constitute statements about existence and its proper priorities, and the words left behind are continually transfigured by our knowledge of them, indeed acquire on this account a kind of talismanic power. A saint of this type, particularly for his compatriots, is the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman.\" —Paul Binding, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroductionPer Olov Enquist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Burnt Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlowing Out a Candle \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter in February from Himself to Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrelude to a Dream\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter in March from Himself to Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvening Promenades\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter in April from Himself to Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTea for Four or Five\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter in May from Himself to Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderwater Footprints\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to a Girl at Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Twilight Meeting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to an Island in Autumn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Tiger and a Gazelle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to the Father from the Son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree o’Clock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Torn-up Suicide Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Desert Blooms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038553178455,"sku":"9780816677993","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816677993.jpg?v=1750940650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-burnt-child-a-novel-9780816677993","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}