A blessed child

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Label

A blessed child

Statement of responsibility

by Linn Ullmann ; translated from the Norweign by Sarah Death

Creator

• trueUllmann, Linn, 1966-

Contributor

• Death, Sarah

Subject

• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• trueFourteen-year-old girls
• Sisters -- Fiction
• trueSweden
• trueFamily relationships
• trueTeenage girls
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• nor
• eng

Summary

Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika's bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar's outcast state, she suddenly turns away-a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak's family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their father-now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there-the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

839.8/2374

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction