The Death of a Beekeeper (English and Swedish Edition) - Hardcover
A retired schoolteacher, dying of cancer, refuses to go to a hospital and remains at his home in the Swedish countryside, where he records his daily thoughts as the disease progresses
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Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden's leading and most prolific poets.
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Text: English, Swedish (translation)
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0811208095
- ISBN 13 9780811208093
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages163
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The Death of a Beekeeper
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Book Description Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dj has light edgewear with a couple small tears & very light soiling. Bottom corner of inside front flap of dj has been clipped. Inside hinge is creased. There are a few pages with inked underlining & notations on them. Seller Inventory # 11951
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. New York: New Directions, 1981. First edition in English and first book published in English. The Death of a Beekeeper, published in 1978, is Gustafsson's best-known novel.[11] John Updike praised it as "a beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse."[12] Ia Dübois has called it "one of his greatest works."[13] Eva Stenskar has written that it "seems so effortless yet lyrical that only an artist at the height of his powers could've produced it."[14] Its main theme is the agony of disease, as it follows Vesslan a beekeeper who is dying of cancer through entries he makes on notepads. The book's innovative structure allows Gustafsson to explore identity through its expression in a variety of forms: imagination, memory and even the mundane details of life. The book's central theme is revealed by the repeated motto of the protagonist, "We never give up. We begin anew." Gustafsson himself has described it as "A book about pain. It describes a journey into the center where pain rules and pain can tolerate no rivals." The novel was re-published in 1984 as the last in a five-novel sequence Sprickorna i muren (The Cracks in the Wall), the other volumes being Herr Gustafsson själv, Yllet, Familjefesten, and Sigismund. Previous owner gift inscription, light wear to dust jacket bottom of spine. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 021413
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. First Edition. black cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine; 163 pgs w/ 5-pg afterword by Swaffar; photo-illus dustjacket w/ $12.95 on front flap, author photo on back cover; author's first fiction trans into English. translated from the Swedish by Janet K.Swaffar and Guntram H. Weber. jacket design by Hermann Strohbach w/ photo by Susanne Strohbach. Seller Inventory # 1486
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