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Andrew Brown - Fishing In Utopia, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Fishing In Utopia

Sweden And The Future That Disappeared

Av Andrew Brown

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Beskrivning
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Sweden was an affluent, egalitarian country envied around the world. Refugees were welcomed, even misfit young Englishmen could find a place there. Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a timber mill while helping to raise their small son. Fishing became his passion and his escape. In the mid-1980s his marriage and the country fell apart. The Prime Minister was assassinated. The welfare system crumbled along with the industries that had supported it. Twenty years later, Andrew Brown travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had loved, and then hated, and now found he loved again.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-05-04
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 205 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Granta Books
  • ISBN: 9781847080813
  • Utmärkelser: Orwell Prize
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Andrew Brown writes for the Guardian and is the editor of their website on religious affairs. He also contributes to Prospect and the New Statesman and writes and presents Analysis programmes for BBC Radio 4. His other books include The Darwin Wars and In the Beginning Was the Worm.

Recensioner i media

Mr Brown's prose is as clear and bewitching as the lake waters which he learns to fish ... Readers who know the Nordic countries will delight in the author's keen ear and eye for the nuances of language, landscape and social customs

Betyg & recensioner

3 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.3/5

  1. 5/5 Lena F

    En ömsint skildring av Sverige från en engelsman som levde här i några år. De lågmälda observationerna är ofta väldigt träffande. Boken är mycket intressant - och man behöver inte vara intresserad av fiske för att tycka det.

  2. 3/5 Jonas
  3. 2/5 Nalle

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