A Blessed Child
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
12.08.2008
Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
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299 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780307269539
A captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory.
"A hauntingly beautiful novel of family ties, A Blessed Child takes on what it means to be old, what it means to have loved selfishly, deeply and - equally - to no longer love." - A.M. Homes, author of The Mistress's Daughter
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away-a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family.
Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their father-now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there-the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.
Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost.
"A hauntingly beautiful novel of family ties, A Blessed Child takes on what it means to be old, what it means to have loved selfishly, deeply and - equally - to no longer love." - A.M. Homes, author of The Mistress's Daughter
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away-a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family.
Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their father-now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there-the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.
Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost.
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