Popular Music

AvMikael Niemi

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Engelska, 2010

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`A wonderfully warm tale of weddings, funerals, marathon sauna contests – and the incomparable thrill of your first kiss, from “the Nick Hornby of the Arctic”.’ Marina Warner, Sunday TimesIts the 1960s, and pop records are gradually finding their way into the eager hands of teenagers in the far north of Sweden. Young Matti dreams of being a rock star – but in the tiny ice-bound village of Pajala, a boy should really spend his time cultivating more manly pursuits, such as hunting elk, drinking moonshine and fighting on dancefloors…`Popular Music’ is one of the freshest, funniest debuts of recent years, and winner of the August prize, Sweden’s equivalent of the Man Booker. So wrap up warm and join Matti and the unforgettable community of Pajala in a wonderful tale of weddings, funerals and marathon sauna contests, the incomparable thrill of your first kiss – and of finally hearing the Beatles.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-07
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780007394463
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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Mikael Niemi was born in 1959 and grew up in the town of Pajala in the northern part of Sweden, the town which provides the setting for ‘Popular Music’. He is an established Swedish children’s author, playwright and poet.

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From the British reviews: 'First, let me confess that I was asked to leave the British Library reading room for chuckling -- not once, but repeatedly -- over this book!Mikael Niemi combines the knowing warmth and vernacular style of, say, Nick Hornby or Roddy Doyle with a bittersweet poetry. Each chapter is a small parable, simple but oceans deep, so that frequently you find you are laughing while having tears in your eyes.' Glyn Brown, The Times 'An extraordinary novel: hilarious, ribald, obscene!All the ingredients are there for a tender and bittersweet coming-of-age story: Roddy Doyle meets "Fever Pitch". But then Mikael Niemi smashes into the memories he has assembled with his pulverising imagination!I've never read anything like it." Nicci Gerrard, Observer 'The intriguing yet charming characters do more than keep you engaged!"Popular Music" paints a clearer picture of a teenage boy obsessed by rock music than any number of list-riddled, thirtysomething London lad-lit books could ever hope to.' Time Out 'Hilariously tracks Matti's rise from the illicit and shocking pleasure of listening to a Beatles single to miming in the garage with a hardboard cut-out guitar!There are nuances to these rites of passage that recall Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity"!the astonishing success of "Popular Music" in Sweden confirms that this sardonic tale of terrible guitar-playing can strike a fresh, jaunty, even heartfelt, chord.' Independent 'The most extraordinary novel I have read in ages. With his wonderful humour and northern perspective, Niemi pushes all literary traditions aside to create a novel about growing up that is brilliantly original'