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Stig Dagerman - 1948
Stig Dagerman’s influential novel about a young man’s troubling journey through despair and illicit passion.Set in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, A Burnt Child revolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother.
Written in a taut and beautifully naturalistic tone, it remains Stig Dagerman’s most widely read novel and is one of the crowning works of his short but celebrated career.
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