Description
A reimagining of Buechner's classic play Woyzeck, the tale of jealousy, love turned to hate, and murder and its consequences propels this internationally acclaimed novel
About the Author
Steve Sem-Sandberg is a writer, translator, and literary critic. He began writing in 1976 and is best known for his many documentary historical novels, including Theres (1996), Ravensbruck (2003), and De fattiga i Lodz (2009), which won the August Prize. In addition to his writing, he also works as a literary critic at Dagens Nyheter. In 2020 he was elected to the Swedish Academy, the body that chooses the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Reviews
"It's the collaboration and tension between the reader and Woyzeck, rather than the attempts to find more profound motives, that makes this reading experience so strong." * Svenska Dagbladet *
"A sharp and hypersensitive novel about abandonment and violence. It's a fantastic, spellbinding, and terrifying book." * Dagens Nyheter *
"This is fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved." -- Hilary Mantel * (on The Emperor of Lies) *
"Cogent and affecting . . . In Mr. Sem-Sandberg's fine novel, the tragedy is real but much more specific and conditional. It gives us, the readers, just enough of a loophole to evade its reckonings." * Wall Street Journal *
Book Information
ISBN 9781419751226
Author Steve Sem-Sandberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Abrams
Publisher Abrams