Let's Hope for the Best
Autor Carolina Setterwallen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iul 2019
One
day
while
nursing
her
young
son,
Carolina
receives
a
strange
email
from
her
boyfriend
Aksel,
detailing
computer
passwords
and
other
instructions
in
event
of
his
death.
She
grows
worried
at
first,
then
irritated
-
this
is
so
typical
of
her
unsentimental
partner.
Aksel
ends
the
message:
Let's
hope
for
the
best!
Five
months
later,
he
is
dead.
Perhaps to impose some order on the chaos, Carolina devotedly chronicles the months after Aksel's passing like a ship's log. She unpacks with forensic intensity the small details of life before tragedy, eager to find some explanation for the bad hand she's been dealt. When new romance rushes in, Carolina finds herself assuming the reticent role Aksel once played. She's been given the gift of love again. But can she make it work?
A striking feat of auto-fiction, written in direct address to Setterwall's late partner, LET'S HOPE FOR THE BEST is a stylistic tour-de force..
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316489621
ISBN-10: 031648962X
Pagini: 336
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 031648962X
Pagini: 336
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
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Notă biografică
Carolina
Setterwall
was
born
in
1978
in
Sala,
Sweden.
After
studying
Media
and
Communication
in
Uppsala,
Stockholm,
and
London
she
has
worked
within
the
music
and
publishing
industries
as
an
editor
and
writer.
Setterwall
lives
in
Stockholm
with
her
son.
Caracteristici
Let's Hope for the Best marks the arrival of an extraordinarily accomplished new voice. Alternating between the past and present, it recounts in spare and beautiful prose how a couple met, fell in love and formed a family, and what remained of that family once one of them was suddenly gone
Recenzii
This book! Swedish, confessional, shockingly honest about desire, love, loss. I've read it twice now and can't stop thinking about Carolina. Utterly compulsive
Painfully clear-sighted, unsentimental . . . It's about grief in all its raw messiness
Brutally candid. The book's power lies in Setterwall's lacerating honesty. It's the most compelling book I've read in years
Quite simply one of the best bereavement memoirs I've read. It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard, but there is a unique voice here, a style of disclosure all her own, incidentally beautifully translated. It's an emotional battering ram, I thought, and I absolutely loved it
Heart-wrenching and unsettling
Moving, tender . . . Depicts the obsessive interiority of grief
The kind of book that you'll never forget. It gets under your skin. It moves into the heart. The story is so vulnerable and direct that one cannot avoid caring for the people it is about, and to love them . . . I have never read a book that, so beautifully, puts into words how difficult it is to live without - but also to live with - the one you love. One of the best, most touching and most relevant books I've ever read
An electrifying read. A book that forces itself upon you, impossible to resist and difficult to pause
A rich, honest, and poignant portrayal of the many dimensions of grief
One of the best books I've ever read . . . You're drawn into her raw grief, anger, guilt, bitterness, fear and loss - all of it, without any filter . . . Real and alive
Breathtaking . . . Astoundingly well told
A magnificent reading experience
Honest and unvarnished . . . Setterwall writes about the many nuances of grief, but also about love, family life and expectations of life before and after tragedy
Painfully clear-sighted, unsentimental . . . It's about grief in all its raw messiness
Brutally candid. The book's power lies in Setterwall's lacerating honesty. It's the most compelling book I've read in years
Quite simply one of the best bereavement memoirs I've read. It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard, but there is a unique voice here, a style of disclosure all her own, incidentally beautifully translated. It's an emotional battering ram, I thought, and I absolutely loved it
Heart-wrenching and unsettling
Moving, tender . . . Depicts the obsessive interiority of grief
The kind of book that you'll never forget. It gets under your skin. It moves into the heart. The story is so vulnerable and direct that one cannot avoid caring for the people it is about, and to love them . . . I have never read a book that, so beautifully, puts into words how difficult it is to live without - but also to live with - the one you love. One of the best, most touching and most relevant books I've ever read
An electrifying read. A book that forces itself upon you, impossible to resist and difficult to pause
A rich, honest, and poignant portrayal of the many dimensions of grief
One of the best books I've ever read . . . You're drawn into her raw grief, anger, guilt, bitterness, fear and loss - all of it, without any filter . . . Real and alive
Breathtaking . . . Astoundingly well told
A magnificent reading experience
Honest and unvarnished . . . Setterwall writes about the many nuances of grief, but also about love, family life and expectations of life before and after tragedy