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Linn Ullmann and
Sarah Death (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
August 12, 2008
Pages
307
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307265470
ISBN-10
0307265471
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
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Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
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$24.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the internationally acclaimed author of Stella Descending and Grace, a captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory.\
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erikaâs bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnarâs outcast state, she suddenly turns awayâa common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isakâs family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their fatherânow eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile thereâthe three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.
Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost.
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erikaâs bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnarâs outcast state, she suddenly turns awayâa common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isakâs family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their fatherânow eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile thereâthe three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.
Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost.
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (August 12, 2008)
9780307265470 | details & prices | 307 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $24.95
About: From the internationally acclaimed author of Stella Descending and Grace, a captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory.
About: From the internationally acclaimed author of Stella Descending and Grace, a captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory.
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