Samlade verk explained

Samlade verk
(Collected Works)
Author:Lydia Sandgren
Cover Artist:Heike Schüssler
Country:Sweden
Language:Swedish
Set In:Gothenburg, Sweden
Published:2020
Publisher:Albert Bonniers Förlag
Pages:690
Awards:August Prize (2020)

Samlade verk (lit. Collected Works) is a 2020 debut novel by Swedish writer Lydia Sandgren (born 1987). It won the August Prize for Fiction on the same year it was published.[1]

Synopsis

Set in Gothenburg, Gustav Becker, a distinguished artist, is being prepared for a major retrospective in his career from the 1980s onwards. At the same time, a psychology student Rachel changes and meets her mysteriously missing mother's face on an exhibition poster that is wallpapered across town. In the same vein, Rachel's father, the publisher Martin Berg, is thrown into a dizzying life crisis.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Samlade verk. Augustpriset. 9 January 2021.