{"product_id":"collected-works","title":"Collected Works","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCollected Works\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLydia Sandgren\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781662601514\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAstra House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A witty, toothy, family saga, unashamedly intellectual . . . that, like youth, seems to have it all--energy, aspiration, and self-delusion.\" --\u003cb\u003eCatherine Taylor, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"MEET SWEDEN'S SALLY ROONEY\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Times of London \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wry bestseller that reads like the effortlessly chic European cousin of \u003ci\u003eFleishman is in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph of London\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Poised at the intersection of life and art, reality and imagination, [\u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e] blends the thrill of mystery with the curiosity and depth of philosophical inquiry.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e . . . is as insatiable in its read as it is insightful to modern challenges of family, memory, and finding purpose.\" --Matthew Bedard, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlaunt \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] sweeping and complex drama of family, art, and sacrifice . . . Readers will be captivated.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A richly evocative work from a major new talent.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compelling mystery and poignant bildungsroman for readers of Karl Ove Knausgård, \u003ci\u003eCollected Works \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about love, power, and art--and what leads us to make the pivotal decisions that change the course of our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin Berg's wife, Cecilia, disappeared years ago. His memories of their carefree college days seem ever out of reach, and the intellectual curiosities that once made him the object of her desire have given way to midlife uncertainty. The methodical and quiet life he's made for himself and his adult children couldn't be further from the one he dreamed of in his youth, when the manuscripts lying around his apartment were flush with promise and his ailing publishing house was still new. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerhaps nothing reminds Martin of these failures more than his friend Gustav Becker, a wildly successful painter who's returned to Gothenburg on the eve of his career-defining retrospective. Gustav, meanwhile, is hurting too. His obsession with Cecilia's inexplicable disappearance had made his art hagiographic, fixated on her image. When posters for Gustav's retrospective plaster Cecilia's face on major billboards across the city, Martin's daughter Rakel learns a haunting fact that points toward her mother's whereabouts. She and her brother chase this clue across time, memory, and Europe to discover why Cecilia abandoned her family, with the imagined hope that the question of what makes a person leave can ever be answered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e, a major hit in Sweden, sold over 100,000 copies in its first year in print, instantly making Lydia Sandgren a literary sensation. Winner of the 2020 August Prize for Fiction, the novel is set to publish in 17 territories.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Astra House","offers":[{"title":"Collected Works | Lydia Sandgren | Hardcover | 9781662601514 | New | Fiction 1536639","offer_id":48163148759192,"sku":"1536639","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/817w1AwnEqL.jpg?v=1771877722","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/collected-works","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}