Engagement
$26.26
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2026
Summary
A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual
“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 Gust…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241688137 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241688132 |
| Author: | Gun-Britt Sundström, Kathy Saranpa |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Effortlessly contemporary, even refreshing… Aside from writerly skill and timely resonance, part of why Engagement feels so immediate is that its strident politics are married to an eternal, universal central conceit: people not being able to love another as they want to be loved * Financial Times *A novel from which you never really recover – Victor Malm * Expressen *Honest, self-searching, endearingly puzzled at every development, Martina is a pleasure to be with – for us, if not for Gustav. Her voice is brisk, conversational, contingent – we could almost imagine her unpacking the shopping as she explains herself * TLS *
About The Author
Gun-Britt Sundström
Gun-Britt Sundström (Author)
Gun-Britt Sundström (b. 1945) is an author, critic, and translator. She has authored sixteen books, including Engagement (1976). Since the 1990s, she has become recognized as one of Sweden’s leading translators of children’s literature and fiction. In 2019, she was awarded the Helga Prize for her “linguistic sensitivity, self-distance, black humour and acuity.”
Kathy Saranpa (Translator)
Kathy Saranpa (b. 1955) is a literary translator based in Germany. Her debut book-length translation was A Silenced Voice by Ingrid and Joachim Wall (2020). She is a member of the Committee of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors and serves on the advisory board of Books from Sweden.
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