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Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine tree. That's where it may have started. In this follow-up to The Fly Trap, Sjöberg continues to explore the pleasures and trials of those who spend their time tracing the smallest details of the natural world. Calling on his childhood memories and experience as a hoverfly collector, and following the trail of long forgotten entomologists before him who left their native Sweden for the U.S., Sjöberg contemplates the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on.
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About the Author
Fredrik Sjöberg collects hoverflies on the island of Runmarö, in the archipelago east of Stockholm. He is also a literary critic, translator, cultural columnist and the author of the critically acclaimed The Fly Trap.
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"Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive . . . a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjoberg writes with infectious passion." Independent"
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- PublisherPenguin UK
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0141980311
- ISBN 13 9780141980317
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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