The family clause
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Author
Contributors
Menzies, Alice, translator.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Fiction (Adult)
KHEMIRI Jona
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published in 2018 by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Sweden, as Pappaklausulen.
Description
"A novel about a family in crisis, as a proud patriarch encounters the harsh realities he has inflicted on his children"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to Sweden to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather is perfect-- at least, according to himself. Over the course of ten intense days relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather is confronted by his past. The daughter is faced with an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Per a longstanding family agreement, the grandfather has maintained his Swedish residency by coming to stay with his son every six months. Can this clause be renegotiated, or will it chain the family to its past forever? -- adapted from jacket
Language
Translated from the Swedish.