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The rock blaster / Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.
Van Pelt Library PT9876.23.A49 B413 2020b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mankell, Henning, 1948-2015, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Bergsprängaren. English
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Blast injuries--Fiction.
- Blast injuries.
- Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
- Reminiscing in old age.
- Social conditions.
- Working class.
- Families.
- Sweden.
- Families--Sweden--Fiction.
- Working class--Sweden--Fiction.
- Sweden--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in Sweden for the working class"-- Provided by publisher.
- "The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in Sweden for the working class."--Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- First published in the Swedish language as 'Bergsprängaren' by Författarförlaget, Gothenburg, in 1973.
- "A Vintage Books Original"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780525566168
- 0525566163
- OCLC:
- 1140074116
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