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Author Alvtegen, Karin, 1965-

Title Shadow / Karin Alvtegen ; translated from the Swedish by McKinley Burnett
Published Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate Books, 2009
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Series Overdrive
Summary In a nondescript apartment block in Stockholm, most of the residents are elderly. Usually a death is a sad but straightforward event. But sometimes a resident will die and there are no friends or family to contact. This is when Marianne Folkesson arrives, employed by the state to close up a life with dignity and respect. Gerda Persson has lain dead in her apartment for three days before Marianne is called. When she arrives, she finds the apartment tidy and ordered. Gerda's life seems to have been quite ordinary. Until Marianne opens the freezer and finds it full of books, neatly stacked and wrapped in clingfilm, a thick layer of ice covering them. They are all by Axel Ragnerfeldt, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with handwritten dedications to Gerda from the author
Notes Translated from the Swedish
Subject Authors, Swedish -- Fiction.
Fame -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Older women -- Death -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 184767478X (electronic bk.)
192179951X (electronic bk.)
9781847674784 (electronic bk.)
9781921799518 (electronic bk.)
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