Engagement

<''I want to have him, I really do. I just don''t want him to have me.''

Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work.

Engagement, set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world''s future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy. First published in 1976, when it was heralded as an instant classic, Engagement remains as relevant, hilarious and heartbreaking today.<>

Product details

• Authors: Gun-Britt Sundstrm, Gun-Britt Sundström
• Assisted by: Saranpa Kathy (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9780241688120
• ISBN: 978-0-241-68812-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 216 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, 20th Century, Fiction in translation, Sweden, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Sweden, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary