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Linda Boström Knausgård in at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn
October 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm UTC+0
A family on the brink of disaster: the young daughter blames herself for her father’s death and has stopped talking.
Ellen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. “We’re a family of light!” she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. “Welcome to America” is a dark portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, and a family on the brink of disaster.
“Welcome to America presents itself as an étude in the musical sense of the term: a basic theme that varies to infinity, acquiring with each new variation a new unprecedented facet. A triumph.” —Le Monde
Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish author and poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for Swedish radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was awarded the Mare Kandre Prize and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio Novel Award 2014. Welcome to America, her second novel, has been awarded the prestigious Swedish August Prize and nominated for the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize.v
A family on the brink of disaster: the young daughter blames herself for her father’s death and has stopped talking.
Ellen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. “We’re a family of light!” she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. “Welcome to America” is a dark portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, and a family on the brink of disaster.
“Welcome to America presents itself as an étude in the musical sense of the term: a basic theme that varies to infinity, acquiring with each new variation a new unprecedented facet. A triumph.” —Le Monde
Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish author and poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for Swedish radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was awarded the Mare Kandre Prize and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio Novel Award 2014. Welcome to America, her second novel, has been awarded the prestigious Swedish August Prize and nominated for the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize.