Smile of the Midsummer Night

A Picture of Sweden
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-909961-04-3
Verlag: The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus

Buch, Englisch, 151 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 167 mm, Gewicht: 205 g

Two lifetimes of exploration lie at the heart of Smile of a Midsummer Night. Through interwoven journeys taken together and apart, two voices become one guide, from the old thatched farmhouses of Ska°ne to the northern region of Norrland. We discover the ancient city of Jo¨nko¨ping on Lake Va¨ttern, stay at the idyllic fjord in Bohusla¨n, visit the great lake of Swedish literature, Lake Ma¨laren, and are taken to the city the authors call home, Stockholm. Throughout Smile of a Midsummer Nightwe see a landscape infused with the authors’ sense of nostalgia, memory and belonging. Through art, literature and history we learn of the traditions that have fascinated the Swedish for generations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gustafsson, Lars

Blomqvist, Agneta

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bragan-Turner, Deborah

Über Autor(innen)

Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden’s most eminent authors. He has been translated into 15 languages and recognised with many awards, including the Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais (1983), the Heinrich Steffens Preis (1986), Una Vita per la Letteratura (1989) and many others. Agneta Blomqvist was born in 1942. She is a teacher of Religion and Literature and the editor of a major encyclopaedia of literature.