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From a promising young Swedish writer, a profoundly modern and universal novel set in 1718 in which the historical backdrop takes second place to the emotional and moral dilemma of a simple, loyal man who finds himself at the centre of a collapsing world.
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About the Author:
Ellen Mattson was born in 1962 on Sweden's west coast, and is the daughter of children's author Ollo Mattson. Regarded as one of Sweden's most important young writers and critics, she has published four previous works of fiction.
Review:
"Beautifully measured and unadorned, Snow does not burden itself as a conventional "historical novel"; this is a more subtle thing, and I thought of Breughel, Bergman and Kafka." -- Alan Warner "Mattson produces some astonishing bursts of language, the most tangible sensations and more than a few resonant ideas." * Guardian * "A subtle, delicate novel... Mattson's powerful descriptive prose concerns itself with the unquenchable human lust for the warmth hidden beneath the icy cold banalities of everyday life." * Glasgow Herald * "Prose of a solemn and resonant beauty." * Times Literary Supplement *
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0099466686
- ISBN 13 9780099466680
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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