Lars Gustafsson

• Nov-1981
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The celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain. In the beginning of the winter thaw, Lars Lennart Westin has learned that he has cancer and will not...

• Mar-1983
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• Oct-1984
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• Aug-1986
• / Literary
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What is happiness in an age of packaged needs and liberated desires? Lars Gustafsson’s Stories of Happy People is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair. “Uncle Sven and the...

• Jun-1987
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Lars Gustafsson’s Funeral Music for Freemasons (1983), the Swedish writer’s fifth book of fiction to be translated into English, follows the lives of three free spirits of the 1950s, from their aspiring student years in Stockholm to their prese...

• Jan-1989
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• Jul-1993
• / General Fiction
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In his newest novel, A Tiler's Afternoon, Lars Gustafsson invites us to share a day's work with Torsten Bergman, an aging, semi-retired tile-layer. On this particular day, Torsten arrives at an empty suburban villa, partially renovated and left unfin...

• Feb-1999
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Jewish Judge Erwin Caldwell is dealing with enough crises when he discovers that the Dutch philosopher Jan van de Rouwers, revered by Texas students, was not a Resistance fighter in World War II but rather a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semitic apologi...