Bengt Ohlsson, one of Sweden s most successful young writers, has responded to the classic Doctor Glas with Gregorius, which is the voice of Pastor Gregorius over the course of what could be his last and fateful summer. Gregorius is a rancorous, malodorous, and unattractive figure married to a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. But his sense of his own mortality, of his personal inadequacy, and his tenuous hold on happiness are uniquely absorbing and haunting. It is a compelling study of loneliness, longing, and the nature of love, the desires that bring people together and the fears that keep them apart."
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Review:
Gregorius is a full, touching and artful re-imagining of its ungainly hero. No wonder it won a prize -- Margaret Atwood, The Guardian
Ohlsson is not content to be categorized as a successor. He has his own ambition and formal mastery -- TLS
Ohlsson movingly depicts...in patient detail and with vivid tableaux of contrasting couples, a problem that then exercised many -- Sunday Review, Independent on Sunday
`Accomplished' -- The Times
`Deftly plotted, movingly observed, this fictional act of redemption turns the tables on a classic' -- Independent, Boyd Tonkin
`Written with a deft and sensitive hand, this is a remarkable dissection of angst and spiritual unrest' -- Publishers Weekly
About the Author:
BENGT OHLSSON was born in 1963 and since his critically acclaimed debut in 1984 he has risen steadily to become one of Sweden's most celebrated younger novelists. He also writes plays and a weekly column for a Swedish national newspaper. He lives in Stockholm.
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