Bathsheba

Literature & Fiction

Lindgren, Torgny

Contemporary

The Harvill Press

In these stories from the tradition of farmer folk living in the north of Sweden, the author brings to life a whole gallery of simple characters in funny and tragic situations.

Merab's Beauty

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harpercollins

Light

After the plague sweeps through the town of Kadis in northern Sweden, killing most of the population, the few survivors are left with an empty town and no one to guide them in the business of daily living

Dramas & Plays

In the remote fastnesses of Northern Sweden, where a small community shares its meagre subsistence with its domestic livestock, an imported rabbit introduces the plague and the population is all but annihilated. Torgny Lindgren is the author of "Bathsheba" and "Merab's Beauty".

Lindgen, Torgny

Harvill Pr

A forgery is a copy that is fraudulently passed off as the original. True or false? Lindgren's forger "simply creates freedom. Freedom from certainties and markets and the authorities. What are called forgeries," he says, "are the only true expression of our age."Marklund the picture-framer sinks all his savings into a Madonna by Dardel, the Swedish artist's masterwork. Suddenly the picture makes a duplicate appearance, in the studio of the man with the goatee beard; and the tax authorities confiscate the original; and the sitter's son turns up asserting it is stolen property; and Marklund's ex-girlfriend claims a half-share.Marklund's childhood friend Ingela, meanwhile, has learnt to sing and is taken up by an impresario who launches her career as Paula, Sweden's biggest name in pop. But is she too a forgery - if not in the eyes of her plastic-surgeon lover, then in those of the press who "created" her?Recounting this burlesque adventure of the two young innocents at odds with contemporary values, Torgny Lindgren has once again achieved a perfect tale for our times, ironic, profound, many-layered and utterly enjoyable.

In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer

The familiar tales of the Rape of Tamar, the Fall of Rabbah, Absalom's banishment and insurrection, and the death of King David himself are recounted in this account of the Old Testament legend of Bathsheba.

Marklund the picture-framer sinks all his savings into a Madonna by Dardel. Suddenly the picture makes a duplicate appearance, in the studio of the man with the goatee beard, the tax authorities confiscate the original and the sitter's son turns up asserting it is stolen property.

Geddes, Tom

Biographies & Memoirs

Merab's Beauty: And Other Stories

Sandbach, Mary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The way of a serpent

Genre Fiction

Collins, Harvill

An evocative retelling of the Old Testament story captures the love affair of King David and his beautiful young wife Bathsheba, stolen by the king from her first husband, and the tragedy that follows

Bathsheba: A Novel (English and Swedish Edition)

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Bathsheba

Merab's Beauty

Light

Light

In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer

Bathsheba

In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer

Merab's Beauty: And Other Stories

The way of a serpent

Bathsheba: A Novel (English and Swedish Edition)