The Helios Disaster by Bostrom Knausgaard, Linda

The Helios Disaster (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642860689)

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The Helios Disaster by Bostrom Knausgaard, Linda

The Helios Disaster

$15.99
The Helios Disaster by Bostrom Knausgaard, Linda

The Helios Disaster

$15.99
Format: Paperback
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE

"Knausg蚌d is an impressive writer" --Publishers Weekly

"Knausg蚌d's writing is crystalline and careful" --Kirkus Reviews

"Bostr Knausg蚌d's careful exploration of mental illness is restrained and entirely unsentimental. (...) Her prose is unobtrusive in its simplicity and minimalism. The result is both powerful and lyrical." --Words Without Borders

This modern spin on the myth of Athena plunges us deep inside the mind of an unlikely twelve-year-old goddess confined to a small Swedish town. Separated from her father just moments after bursting from his skull in full armor, Anna is packed off into foster care where she learns to ski, speaks in tongues, and negotiates the needs of a quirky cast of relatives. Unable to overcome her father's absence, however, she finally succumbs to depression and is institutionalized. Anna's rallying war cry rings out across the pages of this concise and piercing novel as a passionate appeal for belonging taken to its emotional extreme.



Author: Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
ISBN-10: 1642860689
ISBN-13: 9781642860689
Publisher: World Editions
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020
By Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
By Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
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LINDA BOSTRﾖM KNAUSGﾅRD is a Swedish author and poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for national radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the United States. Welcome to America, her second novel, was nominated for the prestigious Swedish August Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize in her home country, and was also longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award in the United States. October Child became a bestseller in Sweden and throughout Scandinavia, where it was published to great critical acclaim.

RACHEL WILLSON-BROYLES is a freelance translator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her BA in Scandinavian Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2002 and her PhD in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. Other authors whose works she has translated include Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jonas Jonasson, Malin Persson Giolito, and Linda Bostr Knausg蚌d.

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