Monika Fagerholm Wonderful Women by the Water Sea Tate

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If you haven't heard of Monika Fagerholm before now, it's probably because she writes in Swedish. Now that her first novel, Wonderful Women by the Sea has been published in the United States, however, expect to hear more. Winner of two major Scandinavian literary prizes, Fagerholm's novel has been deftly translated into English by Joan Tate. The story centres on two families who meet every year at the same seaside enclave. It is told by Thomas, a small child when he first goes to the sea with his parents, Isabella and Kayus, and meets Renee, the daughter of Rosa and Gabriel. Renee's family has just returned from America, and soon Isabella and Rosa become friends. Together they pore over American magazines and speculate about the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor.

As the summers roll by, these wonderful women are affected by changes in the outside world: the women's movement, the violent student uprisings of 1968, the social and political upheaval that washes across the world like a tidal wave. Soon the safe little world Thomas has always known will disappear, never to be seen again. Wonderful Women by the Sea pushes the boundaries of language and form, its delightful vignettes arranged with fine disregard for chronology. This is a sad book, but a wonderful one, and Monika Fagerholm is definitely a name to remember

Translated by Joan Tate

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