Bloody awful in different ways / Andrev Walden ; translated by Ian Giles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walden, Andrev, author.

Contributor:

Giles, Ian (Translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Javla karlar. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--Fiction.

Mothers.

Men--Fiction.

Men.

Walden, Andrev--Fiction.

Walden, Andrev.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Physical Description:

341 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2025.

Language Note:

Translated from the Swedish.

Summary:

Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev's mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or canoe enthusiasts, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame - but even she can't control how they behave. Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins and ends; and above all, about men. Because after all, you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years.

Notes:

First published in Swedish as J̃vla karlaby Bokf̲rlager Polaris 2023.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780241720288

0241720281

OCLC:

1470837670

Publisher Number:

90103237710