In the canon
The Summer Book
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1972
- Originally in
- Originally in Swedish
- Pages
- Pages 180
The book opens with an old woman on her knees in the peony bed, hunting for her false teeth, while her six-year-old granddaughter watches and asks when she is going to die. Soon, the grandmother says, as plainly as reporting the weather.
You hold your breath and glide and turn and come up, let yourself rise and breathe out. And then you float. Just float.
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