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The Price of Water in Finistere Book
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Foyles
'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have to choose.' With this conviction in mind, acclaimed Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten abandons her native country at the age of fifty-five and settles in Brittany. At the heart of this memoir is the conviction that the happiness to be found in Finistère will not allow itself to be, cannot be, expressed in writing. Embroidered around this seeming paradox are poignant, outraged and thought-provoking observations on the widest range of subjects: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the stubbornness of bank managers, the controlling of moles and slugs, death, political hypocrisy, the delights of wild weather. Malmsten's passion and humour shine through every episode she describes, however minor, offering the reader a window onto a solitary life at once touching, thought-provoking and, occasionally, hilarious.
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Blackwell
A woman abandons her native country at the age of 55 to settle in Brittany, and one day she promises to write about her beloved bit of paradise. Malmsten's passion and humour offer the reader a window into a solitary life at once touching...
- 0099466678
- 9780099466673
- Bodil Malmsten
- 2 February 2006
- Vintage
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- New edition
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