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A retired schoolteacher, dying of cancer, refuses to go to a hospital and remains at his home in the Swedish countryside, where he records his daily thoughts as the disease progresses
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"This thoughtful and beautifully written novel... We cannot fail to be moved" (Diana Hinds Independent)
"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" (Frieda McGreal Yorkshire Post)
"Sensitive and vivid" (Wendy Jennings Church Times)
"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" (Jewish News)
"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" (Ken Spillman West Australian)
"A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse" (New Yorker)
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"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" (Frieda McGreal Yorkshire Post)
"Sensitive and vivid" (Wendy Jennings Church Times)
"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" (Jewish News)
"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" (Ken Spillman West Australian)
"A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse" (New Yorker)
‘A beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse’ – New Yorker
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- PublisherNew Directions Publishing
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0811208095
- ISBN 13 9780811208093
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages163
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Book Description Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dj has light edgewear with a couple small tears & very light soiling. Bottom corner of inside front flap of dj has been clipped. Inside hinge is creased. There are a few pages with inked underlining & notations on them. Seller Inventory # 11951
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. New York: New Directions, 1981. First edition in English and first book published in English. The Death of a Beekeeper, published in 1978, is Gustafsson's best-known novel.[11] John Updike praised it as "a beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse."[12] Ia Dübois has called it "one of his greatest works."[13] Eva Stenskar has written that it "seems so effortless yet lyrical that only an artist at the height of his powers could've produced it."[14] Its main theme is the agony of disease, as it follows Vesslan a beekeeper who is dying of cancer through entries he makes on notepads. The book's innovative structure allows Gustafsson to explore identity through its expression in a variety of forms: imagination, memory and even the mundane details of life. The book's central theme is revealed by the repeated motto of the protagonist, "We never give up. We begin anew." Gustafsson himself has described it as "A book about pain. It describes a journey into the center where pain rules and pain can tolerate no rivals." The novel was re-published in 1984 as the last in a five-novel sequence Sprickorna i muren (The Cracks in the Wall), the other volumes being Herr Gustafsson själv, Yllet, Familjefesten, and Sigismund. Previous owner gift inscription, light wear to dust jacket bottom of spine. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 021413
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Book Description Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), edges foxed, edge tears jacket (small edge loss, reverse side toned, flap clipped), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 163 pp. Told through the journals of a Swedish school teacher turned apiarist, this bestselling novel is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. In the beginning of the bleak winter thaw in Sweden, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not live through Spring. (Translated from Swedish.). Seller Inventory # 23283
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