Sunday's Children by Ingmar Bergman - ISBN: 9781784873899
Paperback
A child’s summer shatters as a marriage falls apart.

Sunday's Children

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    8 January 2019

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Summary

The second novel in world-renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents.

Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the terrible realization that his father and mother are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, its rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family’s ramshackle summer home threatens to bring to a close the bright, brilliant haze of Pu’s child…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784873899
ISBN-10:1784873896
Author:Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:8 January 2019
Weight:109g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 7mm
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Critics Review

Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be

Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be – John McGahern * New York Times Book Review *
This haunting, autobiographical work is highly recommended for serious fiction and film collections * Library Journal *
In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience * Houston Chronicle *

About The Author

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1918. He wrote or directed more than 170 theatrical productions and 60 films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely-regarded as one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th century. Bergman’s trilogy of books - The Best Intentions, Sunday’s Children, and Private Confessions - is based on the life of his parents, and details his own upbringing in early 20th-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.

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