The serious game / Hjalmar Söderberg ; translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Söderberg, Hjalmar, 1869-1941.

Contributor:

Claeson, Eva.

Standardized Title:

Allvarsamma leken. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xiv, 232 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : M. Boyars, 2001.

Summary:

Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.

Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. "The Serious Game" is Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story.

ISBN:

0714530611

OCLC:

59550810