European Trash: Fourteen Ways to Remember a Father by Ulf Peter Hallberg

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Combining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, European Trash is a humorous, moving, and elegiac novel that "circles" around the image of the author's father who, through his assemblage of objects, art, and wisdom--collected in his flat in Malmo, Sweden--strives to keep the culture and values that others might call "European Trash" intact.

Translated by Erland Anderson and Ingrid Cassady

Publication Date: November 19, 2013
Paperback: 350 pages
ISBN: 9781938604362

Also available as an eBook

Combining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, European Trash is a humorous, moving, and elegiac novel that "circles" around the image of the author's father who, through his assemblage of objects, art, and wisdom--collected in his flat in Malmo, Sweden--strives to keep the culture and values that others might call "European Trash" intact.

Translated by Erland Anderson and Ingrid Cassady

Publication Date: November 19, 2013
Paperback: 350 pages
ISBN: 9781938604362

Also available as an eBook

PRAISE FOR EUROPEAN TRASH

Awarded the Gerard Bonnier Prize in 2010

"One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences." --Michel Ekman, Svenska Dagbladet

"Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash." --Amelie Bjorck, Goteborgs-Posten

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ulf Peter Hallberg: a Swedish writer born in Malmö, has lived in Berlin since 1983. He is the author of many books, including The Glance of the Flâneur (translated into German and Italian), Grand Tour, Legends & Lies, European Trash

ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

Erland Anderson has published several books in translation, including Between Darkness and Darkness: Selected Poems by Rolf Aggestam, (with Lars Nordstrom, 1989) and Views from a Tuft of Grass by Harry Martinson (2005).

Ingrid Cassady is from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently lives in California.

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