Wilful Disregard: A Novel About Love
Author(s): Lena Andersson
Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks and she acts according to her principles. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her. From now on Ester's existence is intrinsically linked to that day, and the chain of events that unravels will change her life forever. Bitingly funny and darkly fascinating Wilful Disregard is a story about total and desperate devotion and about how willingly we betray ourselves in the pursuit of love.
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Winner of the August Prize 2013.
Brilliant and unflinching on obsession, on desperation, on the stuff of how people are capable of being to each other. Andersson writes smart, sharp-eyed, and often witheringly funny prose; nobody gets out of this situation with their pride, or their public persona, intact. Which is what makes it such addictive reading. -- Belinda McKeon, author of SOLACE and TENDER A creepy lucid dissection of the tangled psychology of love. M Magazine
Lena Andersson (b. 1970) is a novelist and columnist for Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest morning paper. She lives in Stockholm where she is considered one of the country's sharpest contemporary analysts. Wilful Disregard is her fifth novel and won Sweden's prestigious August Prize.
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.3
- : May 2015
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lena Andersson
- : Hardback
- : Main Market Ed.
- : English
- : 839.738
- : 208
