Let's Hope for the Best
Autor Carolina Setterwallen Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 iul 2019
One day while nursing her young son, Carolina receives a strange email from her boyfriend Aksel, detailing computer passwords and other instructions in event of his death. She grows worried at first, then irritated - this is so typical of her unsentimental partner. Aksel ends the message: Let's hope for the best! Five months later, he is dead.
Perhaps to impose some order on the chaos, Carolina devotedly chronicles the months after Aksel's passing like a ship's log. She unpacks with forensic intensity the small details of life before tragedy, eager to find some explanation for the bad hand she's been dealt. When new romance rushes in, Carolina finds herself assuming the reticent role Aksel once played. She's been given the gift of love again. But can she make it work?
A striking feat of auto-fiction, written in direct address to Setterwall's late partner, LET'S HOPE FOR THE BEST is a stylistic tour-de force..
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ISBN-13: 9780316489621
ISBN-10: 031648962X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 031648962X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Carolina Setterwall was born in 1978 in Sala, Sweden. After studying Media and Communication in Uppsala, Stockholm, and London she has worked within the music and publishing industries as an editor and writer. Setterwall lives in Stockholm with her son.
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'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN
A Guardian Book of the Year
After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself bereft and rudderless at thirty-six, faced with the seemingly impossible task of raising her son alone.
In this remarkable Swedish memoir about grief and guilt, memory and intimacy, she explores the nature of bereavement itself - the difficulty of learning to live with the ones we love, and the trials of living without them.
'The most compelling book I've read in years' The Times
'It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard. I absolutely loved it' Evening Standard
'Every spare, controlled sentence has the ring of truth. Gripping' Daily Mail
'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN
A Guardian Book of the Year
After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself bereft and rudderless at thirty-six, faced with the seemingly impossible task of raising her son alone.
In this remarkable Swedish memoir about grief and guilt, memory and intimacy, she explores the nature of bereavement itself - the difficulty of learning to live with the ones we love, and the trials of living without them.
'The most compelling book I've read in years' The Times
'It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard. I absolutely loved it' Evening Standard
'Every spare, controlled sentence has the ring of truth. Gripping' Daily Mail
Recenzii
This book! Swedish, confessional, shockingly honest about desire, love, loss. I've read it twice now and can't stop thinking about Carolina. Utterly compulsive
Painfully clear-sighted, unsentimental . . . It's about grief in all its raw messiness
Brutally candid. The book's power lies in Setterwall's lacerating honesty. It's the most compelling book I've read in years
Quite simply one of the best bereavement memoirs I've read. It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard, but there is a unique voice here, a style of disclosure all her own, incidentally beautifully translated. It's an emotional battering ram, I thought, and I absolutely loved it
Heart-wrenching and unsettling
Moving, tender . . . Depicts the obsessive interiority of grief
The kind of book that you'll never forget. It gets under your skin. It moves into the heart. The story is so vulnerable and direct that one cannot avoid caring for the people it is about, and to love them . . . I have never read a book that, so beautifully, puts into words how difficult it is to live without - but also to live with - the one you love. One of the best, most touching and most relevant books I've ever read
An electrifying read. A book that forces itself upon you, impossible to resist and difficult to pause
A rich, honest, and poignant portrayal of the many dimensions of grief
One of the best books I've ever read . . . You're drawn into her raw grief, anger, guilt, bitterness, fear and loss - all of it, without any filter . . . Real and alive
Breathtaking . . . Astoundingly well told
A magnificent reading experience
Honest and unvarnished . . . Setterwall writes about the many nuances of grief, but also about love, family life and expectations of life before and after tragedy
Painfully clear-sighted, unsentimental . . . It's about grief in all its raw messiness
Brutally candid. The book's power lies in Setterwall's lacerating honesty. It's the most compelling book I've read in years
Quite simply one of the best bereavement memoirs I've read. It's impossible not to draw comparisons with Karl Ove Knausgaard, but there is a unique voice here, a style of disclosure all her own, incidentally beautifully translated. It's an emotional battering ram, I thought, and I absolutely loved it
Heart-wrenching and unsettling
Moving, tender . . . Depicts the obsessive interiority of grief
The kind of book that you'll never forget. It gets under your skin. It moves into the heart. The story is so vulnerable and direct that one cannot avoid caring for the people it is about, and to love them . . . I have never read a book that, so beautifully, puts into words how difficult it is to live without - but also to live with - the one you love. One of the best, most touching and most relevant books I've ever read
An electrifying read. A book that forces itself upon you, impossible to resist and difficult to pause
A rich, honest, and poignant portrayal of the many dimensions of grief
One of the best books I've ever read . . . You're drawn into her raw grief, anger, guilt, bitterness, fear and loss - all of it, without any filter . . . Real and alive
Breathtaking . . . Astoundingly well told
A magnificent reading experience
Honest and unvarnished . . . Setterwall writes about the many nuances of grief, but also about love, family life and expectations of life before and after tragedy