Summary
Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap.
Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn’t matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. That’s where it may have started.
In this follow-up to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141980317 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141980311 |
| Author: | Fredrik Sjöberg |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 442g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 33mm |
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Digressive, discursive and delightful.–Michael Kerr, Telegraph A joy … Fredrik Sj
Digressive, discursive and delightful. – Michael Kerr * Telegraph *
A joy … Fredrik Sjöberg’s best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, hecompletes a trilogy.
* Nature *By his own admission Sjöberg has a “butterfly mind”; the effect of his narrative excursions amounts to a sort of Sebald-lite, albeit without the fictional element. What insures this approach against triviality is the author’s patient alertness to pattern, to telling correspondence. – Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement *Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive … a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjöberg writes with infectious passion.
* Independent *About The Author
Fredrik Sjöberg
Fredrik Sj berg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmar , in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of several books, including The Fly Trap and The Raisin King, which form a trilogy with The Art of Flight.
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