The Serious Game - Softcover

Soderberg, Hjalmar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714530611 ISBN 13: 9780714530611

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2001

Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.

Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. The Serious Game is Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story.

Synopsis:

"Arvid, an ambitious and educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, one summer and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Arvid is frightened of being tied by his emotions. Years later, now trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, the two struggle to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitte

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0714530611
• ISBN 13: 9780714530611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240