Inställd resa till Sabarmati / Majgull Axelsson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axelsson, Majgull, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

Swedish

Genre:

novels.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

383 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Stockholm : Norstedts, [2020]

Summary:

A mother who is not a mother. A daughter who is not a daughter. Still, Lykke and Fatima only have each other. Lykke is an ill-tempered high school teacher in Nässjö, Fatima a foundling from India who has once again been abandoned, this time by her adoptive parents. She really only knows one thing about herself: that her name is not Fatima. When she was found as a newborn on the banks of the river Sabarmatis, she was given the name Meera. She wears it as a secret, until the day she, as an 18-year-old, gets on a train, determined never to return. But Lykke stays in Nässjö and tries to continue her life, despite much brooding. Was it wrong of her to intervene and take care of Fatima? Did she become a failed mother, simply because she was not a mother? Where did the girl go? Why does she never hear from her? One dark afternoon in November, when Lykke is out walking her dog, someone puts a gloved hand on her shoulder, pulls her aside and strikes. And he hits very hard.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789113110097

9113110098

OCLC:

1224479642

Publisher Number:

9789113110097