Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
A joyful family saga about free will,forgiveness,and how we are all interconnected.
In October 1989,triplet babies are born into chaos in a Swedish hospital. Over two decades later,the siblings are scattered around the world,barely speaking.
Sebastian is in London working for a mysterious scientific organisation and falling in love.
Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult.
And the third triplet,Matilda,is in Sweden,practising being a stepmother.
Then something happens that forces them to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying news: their father has gone missing and she has something to tell them,a twenty-five-year secret that will change all their lives.
Publisher: Scribe PublicationsISBN: 9781914484872Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 32 mm
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'This is a prismatic,hilarious,and deeply intelligent novel overflowing with wisdom about the complexities of being alive - I read it ravenously,and with pen in hand.'- Claire Lombardo,author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
'With gorgeous prose and a wry wit,Amanda Svensson offers readers at once a novel of family,love affairs,the search for meaning,of grief and of sibling rivalry - of triplets with a twist.'- Donna Freitas,author of The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
'A brilliant vision of family and modern life,both as we know it and as it can only be imagined by one of Sweden's finest writers - as translated by one of our finest translators,Nichola Smalley. A playful,tender,and funny gem.'- Saskia Vogel,author of Permission
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