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Stig Dagerman
Books in Order: 7 titles
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A Moth to a Flame
'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction'A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergian ...
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Wedding Worries
In Dagerman's last novel, by many considered his best, he returns to the setting and the people of his childhood farm. The novel takes place during the day, and night, when the young daughter on the farm marries the considerably older village butcher...
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To Kill a Child
Stig Dagerman (19231954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories never before published in English, is unified by the theme of t...
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A Burnt Child
After the international success of his collection of World War II newspaper articles, German Autumn -- a book that solidified his status as the most promising and exciting writer in Sweden -- Stig Dagerman was sent to France with an assignment to ...
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Island of the Doomed
In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg's small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country's brightest ...
