The Ravens - Tapa blanda

Críticas

A relentless and harrowing depiction of growing up. It could be the Magnum Opus of a mature writer - but in fact it's the author's debut! Great literature is being written in Sweden - not just crime books (Håkan Nesser)

Through young Klas's clear eyes we see nature reborn in all its implacable grandeur: fatal and lush, strange and magical (August Prize citation)

Reseña del editor

The fields at Raven Fen yield barely enough for Agne and his family to live on, and his young son Klas can only watch as despair consumes his father. While Klas dreams of migrating birds - of escape - Agne imagines his crops devoured by insects never seen in Sweden, predicts endless cycles of storm and drought, hears only the ceaseless crowing of the ravens - and obsesses over the day when his son will take on his burden of toil.

But it is Sweden, it is the 1970s, and Klas can't accept the life his father has chosen for him. Caught between loyalty to his father and fear of his apparent destiny, Klas takes solace in nature, with the cuckoos, curlews and lapwings, far from the tormented world of Raven Fen. And as his father, like his father before him, falls deeper into madness, Klas begins to wonder if he himself might be insane.