by Per-olov Enquist, Anne Karila, Maja Thrane · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330034740
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«Le Livre des paraboles» is the love novel by Per Olov Enquist published by Actes Sud in paperback (240 pages, in French).
The narrator revisits the speech he gave in memory of his mother while a group of dying friends asks him to explain how it all fits together, especially love. A love story then emerges, born of the encounter between a fifteen-year-old boy and an older woman; the memory of that encounter and the figure of the father run through the novel.
Translation from Swedish by Anne Karila and Maja Thrane. Original title: «Liknelseboken: En kärleksroman» (2013). Finalist for the Augustpriset 2013.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Swedish literature.
