The Antarctica of Love

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

About the author

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.

Summary

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

Foreword

The story of a young woman's brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her

Additional text

Stridsberg's language bears the unbearable, and provides a soft blanket that leads us into the worst - and beyond

Product details

• Authors: Sara Stridsberg, STRIDSBERG SARA
• Assisted by: Deborah Bragan-Turner (Translation), Bragan-Turner Deborah (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781529402377
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0237-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 220 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / Feminist