“Both a riveting novel on its own merits and an astonishing gloss on an earlier masterpiece.”―Margaret Atwood
Bengt Ohlsson, one of Sweden’s most successful young writers, has responded to the classic Doctor Glas with Gregorius, which is the voice of Pastor Gregorius over the course of what could be his last and fateful summer. Gregorius is a rancorous, malodorous, and unattractive figure married to a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. But his sense of his own mortality, of his personal inadequacy, and his tenuous hold on happiness are uniquely absorbing and haunting. It is a compelling study of loneliness, longing, and the nature of love, the desires that bring people together and the fears that keep them apart."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Bengt Ohlsson lives in Stockholm, where he is a journalist, columnist, and novelist. He won the August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, for Gregorius.
Margaret Atwood is a Booker Prize–winning poet and author of many acclaimed novels, including The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid’s Tale.
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