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Product Description: Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical. In 1993-1994, Swedish TV 1 conducted a series of talks with prominent writers under the rubric `Seven Boys and Seven Girls...read more
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9781909408227 | Bilingual edition (Norvik Pr, April 3, 2016), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical.
Product Description: When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is ill prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated territory, she encounters the overwhelming and unpredictable forces of nature and demoralizing poverty and ignorance while also gaining access to the unfamiliar world of nomadic Sami reindeer herders...read more
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9780803210745 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is ill prepared for what awaits her.
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9780803224582 | Bison Books, July 1, 2009, cover price $22.95
Product Description: In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master. But away from the safe haven of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle for survival in the wild...read more
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9781847441713 | Gardners Books, February 5, 2009, cover price $21.35
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9780751540505 | Reprint edition (Little Brown Uk, September 1, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the heart of the tranquil countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to eagerly follow his mother and master.
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9781870041546 | Norvik Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $26.95
Product Description: The Angel House is the third novel in the celebrated Swedish novelist Kerstin Ekman's popular quartet of novels she wrote between 1974 and 1983. The women are now free from the hard physical tasks of the earlier novels, but no less trapped in the grinding repetition of factory jobs, repressive unions, and domestic chores in the isolation of their new homes...read more
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9781870041515 | Norvik Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Angel House is the third novel in the celebrated Swedish novelist Kerstin Ekman's popular quartet of novels she wrote between 1974 and 1983.
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9788483101537 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $31.95
Product Description: An essential component of what begins to look like an extended work of major importance.""-Kirkus Reviews. Moving on from the early twentieth century until the inter-war years, The Spring follows the development of the characters and the community familiar to readers from Witches' Rings (available from Dufour)...read more
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9781870041478 | Norvik Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An essential component of what begins to look like an extended work of major importance.
Product Description: This novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal, finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he begins to gradually understand human civilization and learn their language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780099751717 | Vintage Uk, November 1, 1999, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal, finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language.
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9780385488662 | Doubleday, February 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Police Constable Torsson reopens a seemingly open-and-shut case of a man named Matti, killed over a mah-jongg dispute, when Matti's friend Dave comes to town and discovers a noose with human hair on it in the possession of English teacher Anna Ryd, whichcauses startling clues to come to light as the seasons change
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9780312200381 | Picador USA, February 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Police Constable Torsson reopens the case of a man named Matti, killed over a mah-jongg dispute, when Matti's friend Dave comes to town and discovers a noose with human hair on it in the possession of the English teacher Anna Ryd, which causes startling clues to come to light
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9781870041362 | Norvik Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $21.95
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9780312152475 | Picador USA, February 1, 1997, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: After moving to the remote town of Blackwater in northern Sweden to join her lover, Annie Raft stumbles upon a brutal double murder that remains unsolved for twenty years, until the day she sees her grown daughter in the arms of the man Annie saw leavingthe scene of the crime
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