Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1947
when now begins
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Beskrivning
A Metro book of the yearInterweaving the social, political, and personal, in 1947 Elisabeth Åsbrink chronicles the year that ‘now’ began.In 1947, production begins of the Kalashnikov, Christian Dior creates the New Look, Simone de Beauvoir writes The Second Sex, the CIA is set up, a clockmaker’s son draws up the plan that remains the goal of jihadists to this day, and a UN Committee is given four months to find a solution to the problem of Palestine.In 1947, millions of refugees flee across Europe looking for new homes, among them Elisabeth Åsbrink’s father.In 1947, the forces that will go on to govern all our lives during the next 70 years first make themselves known.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2018-11-29
- Mått: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
- Vikt: 238 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Scribe
- Antal sidor: 288
- Förlag: Scribe Publications
- ISBN: 9781911617099
- Originaltitel: 1947
- Översättare: Fiona Graham
- Utmärkelser: Winner of English PEN Award 2017 (UK)
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Elisabeth Åsbrink is a journalist and multi-award-winning author. Her book 1947 won the prestigious Letterstedt Prize and has been translated into 19 languages. Her latest book is Made in Sweden.Fiona Graham is a British literary translator, editor, and reviewer who has lived in Kenya, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Belgium. Her translation of Elisabeth Åsbrink’s 1947: when now begins won an English PEN award and was longlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize and the JQ Wingate Prize.
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