Imprint: Harvill Press
Published: 11/04/2016
ISBN: 9781910701935
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 13mm x 135mm
Weight: 192g
RRP: £12.99
In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he will not live through the spring. Told through the journals of this schoolteacher turned apiarist, The Death of a Beekeeper is his gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.
Westin has refused to surrender the time left to him to the impersonality of a hospital, preferring to take his fate upon himself, to continue his solitary, reflective life in the Swedish countryside. While he watches his inner landscape reforming, the relentlessly intimate burning in his gut provides a point of psychological detachment. 'We begin again,' he insists, 'we never give up.'
Imprint: Harvill Press
Published: 11/04/2016
ISBN: 9781910701935
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 13mm x 135mm
Weight: 192g
RRP: £12.99
This thoughtful and beautifully written novel… We cannot fail to be moved
Has all the lyric intensity we have come to associate with Scandinavian films…It is full of spirit, observation, insight, sadness, struggle, pain and, inevitably, of hope
Sensitive and vivid
The landscape of pain has never been defined more graphically… A disturbing, moving and thought-provoking novel that stays in the mind long after it is read
It is brilliant: an evocative book of exquisite beauty and exceptional wisdom… Hope is the theme of the novel, and it is explored sensitively, intelligently and philosophically by an author who knows the impact of simple, precise language… Art can change the way we see the world and Gustafsson is a fine, fine artist
A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse