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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

Hardback

Main Details

Title In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tom Malmquist
Translated by Henning Koch
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 225,Width 150
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781473640009
ClassificationsDewey:839.738
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint Sceptre
Publication Date 1 June 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The prize-winning, bestselling tale of love, loss, family and the lives we live moment by moment, from a stunning new voice in European fiction. Tom's heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to hospital with severe flu. While the doctors are able to save the baby, they are helpless in the face of what transpires to be acute Leukemia, and in a moment as fleeting as it is cruel Tom gains a daughter but loses his soul-mate. IN EVERY MOMENT is the story of a year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury of bereavement with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone. By turns tragic and redemptive, meditative and breathless, achingly poignant and darkly funny, this heavily autobiographical novel has been described in its native Sweden as 'hypnotic', 'impossible to resist' and 'one of the most powerful books about grief ever written'.

Author Biography

Tom Malmquist (b. 1978) is a poet. He has written two highly acclaimed poetry collections. Every Moment We Are Still Alive is his first work of prose.

Reviews

People around me who lifted this book up have not been able to put it down. Nor will you be able to. Tom Malmquist has written one of the most hypnotically terrifying love books I have read. Heartbreakingly relentless. ... This is a book written, not only in strong emotion, but also with a brutal skill. The first hundred pages of hospital inferno are like a single breath. There is no then, no later, just now. - HELSINGBORGS DAGBLAD Impossible to resist ... There is so much humanity in this book. Equally hilarious and unremarkable as rich in purpose. Just as dirty as beautiful. - EXPRESSEN It is not only admiration, but also wonder, I feel about Malmquist's way to face the grief with linguistic energy, to never lapsing into an already frayed image of death, love and longing - instead writing through, both death and love - but in its own way. The process of writing is a deeply personal struggle, a life struggle. - KULTURNYTT