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Book SynopsisA blisteringly frank autobiographical novel by Sweden''s great man of letters - for readers of K. O. Knausgaard''s My Struggle.
Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail Herald
When everything began so well, how could it turn out so badly?
What was it about Hjoggböle, 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 Broadway.
Why then, living with a new wife in Paris, does he hole up in their palatial Champe
Trade Review
Some life. Some novel . . . Wonderful, brave, evocative . . . It is a remarkable story, and Enquist is remarkably frank in narrating every last detail -- Russell Leadbetter * Herald *
The Wandering Pine, rather like Arthur Miller's Timebends, is a fascinating portrait of intellectual life during the twentieth century -- Kate Webb * Times Literary Supplement *
Fascinating . . . Works best when it feels most like a novel - most obviously in its oblique beginning and end -- James Kidd * Independent *
A riveting objective autobiography -- Peggy Woodford * Church Times *
'A deeply impressive book' Expressen. * Expressen *
'One of the contemporary novel's greatest human investigators' Paul Binding, Independent. * Independent *
