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Wretchedness
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- Book Synopsis
- Winner of the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation PrizeShortlisted for the 2016 August Prize Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeMalmö, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges to a different sound, heading for a crash.From sprawling housing projects to underground clubs and squat parties, Wretchedness is a blistering trip through the underbelly of Europe's cities. Powered by a furious, unpredictable beat, this is a paean to brotherhood, to those who didn't make it however hard they fought, and a visceral indictment of the poverty which took them.
- About The Author
- Andrzej Tich8 was born in Prague to a Polish mother and a Czech father and has lived in Sweden since 1981. In Sweden, Wretchedness was a finalist for the August Prize and won the Eyvind Johnson Prize, while Purity was a finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
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- ISBN
- 9781911508762
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (02 June 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 200
- Weight
- 200 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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