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9780374619916: Beckomberga: A Novel
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ISBN 10: 0374619913 ISBN 13: 9780374619916
Editorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026

Sinopsis

A haunting novel of a woman's lifelong witness to her father's illness, and Stockholm’s mythic mental hospital.

Jackie's father, Jim, lives at Beckomberga. She takes the bus to visit him, though sometimes he refuses to see her and so instead she gets to know his fellow inmates: Olof, a man who has been there since he was a teenager, some sixty-three years; Sabina, wildly unconventional and beloved by Jackie’s father and their doctor; and others. Beckomberga is Stockholm’s famous, infamous mental hospital. An enormous, once-elegant building, it sits beside the most beautiful park, slowly falling apart. The doctor sometimes takes the residents for a night out—champagne in the backseat of the car, parties in town; he says: One night beyond the confines of the hospital makes you human again.

Over the years, Jackie’s family also falls apart, as her mother, Lone, tries to escape the oppressive hold Jim’s illness has on her, as Jim himself tries to escape in any way possible. What follows is an extraordinarily beautiful, stirring portrait of a family and the ways in which our flaws, yearnings, and the unreachable parts of ourselves shape those we love. Jackie bears witness to it all across time, with wisdom and aching clarity—Jim’s sadness and absence, Lone’s attempts to cope and then flee, the loneliness and wonder of Beckomberga, her own capitulation and erasure in the face of what they need.

Sara Stridberg’s Beckomberga is a truly unforgettable novel by one of Sweden’s most admired writers.

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Acerca del autor

Sara Stridsberg is an internationally acclaimed writer and playwright whose work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. A former member of the Swedish Academy, she is a leading feminist and artist in her native Sweden and around the world. Her novel Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams received the Nordic Council Literature Prize and was long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize.

Deborah Bragan-Turner is a literary translator from Swedish. Her translations have been shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize and the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger and longlisted for the Booker International Prize, the Dublin Literary Award and the National Translation Award in Prose.

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Editorial
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0374619913
ISBN 13 
9780374619916
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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