Editions

Sunday's Children

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873899

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 109g

  • RRP: £8.99

Sunday's Children

The second novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents

Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the terrible realisation that his father and mother are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, its rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family’s ramshackle summer home threatens to bring to a close the bright, brilliant haze of Pu’s childhood world.

Based upon film-maker Ingmar Bergman’s own family life, Sunday’s Children is the second part in Bergman’s loose trilogy of books that started with The Best Intentions, and closes with Private Confessions.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784873899

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 109g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be

    John McGahern, New York Times Book Review

  • This haunting, autobiographical work is highly recommended for serious fiction and film collections

    Library Journal

  • In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience

    Houston Chronicle

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About the Author

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1918. He wrote or directed more than 170 theatrical productions and 60 films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely-regarded as one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th century. Bergman’s trilogy of books – The Best Intentions, Sunday’s Children, and Private Confessions – is based on the life of his parents, and details his own upbringing in early 20th-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.

Ingmar Bergman

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