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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE''A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite'' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARDHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda ''Freak'', or ''Commie''. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into their orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcome, that she finally has a place to belong. Yet something isn''t right. Drawn into secrets she doesn''t understand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledge of the world understand what the consequences will be?''One of the most intelligent and poetic novels of the year'' New Statesman
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''A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'' New York Times Book Review The unknowable wisdom of a baby; two teenagers with plans to build a time machine;the unnerving relationship between a man and his dangerous dog; a bumpy reunion between two childhood friends . . . These are stories about how people grow together and pull apart, the strangeness of lives lived at close quarters. Envy, distrust, confidence, collusion, hope - in this remarkable collection, Emily Fridlund delves into the small lies and large truths that make up our lives.Selected by Ben Marcus as winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
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Linda är 15 år, bor i skogen med sina föräldrar och är en ensam särling. Så flyttar en ny familj in i ett stort hus vid sjön. Den spirituella och varma Patra vill gärna ha både sällskap och barnvakt åt 4-årige Paul. Tacksamt låter sig Linda sugas in i familjen, men för att vara en del av den måste hon se åt andra hållet med den vanvård som Paul utsätts för och som till slut får förödande konsekvenser. En stark och poetisk roman om ensamhet och tillhörighet.
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