The Helios Disaster by Linda Bostrom Knausgaard

The Helios Disaster by Linda Bostrom Knausgaard

I am born of a father. I split his head.

This modern spin on the myth of Athena plunges us deep inside the mind of an unlikely twelve-year-old goddess confined to a small Swedish town. Separated from her father just moments after bursting from his skull in full armor, Anna is packed off into foster care where she learns to ski, speaks in tongues, and negotiates the needs of a quirky cast of relatives. Unable to overcome her father's absence, however, she finally succumbs to depression and is institutionalized. Anna's rallying war cry rings out across the pages of this concise and piercing novel as a passionate appeal for belonging taken to its emotional extreme.

The emotional intensity created by Bostrom Knausgaard recalls Sylvia Plath, but her spare, accelerating modern myth owes something to the poet/classicist Anne Carson's novels in verse. This novella cannot be read quickly, its psychological range and febrile prose demand attentiveness. It takes skill and imagination to describe extreme emotions in ways to which everybody can relate but that's what Bostrom Knausgaard achieves in this short, piercing book. The Independent

LINDA BOSTRÖM KNAUSGÅRD is a Swedish author and poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for national radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the United States. Welcome to America, her second novel, was nominated for the prestigious Swedish August Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize in her home country, and was also longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award in the United States. October Child became a bestseller in Sweden and throughout Scandinavia, where it was published to great critical acclaim.

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ISBN 13	9781642860689
ISBN 10	1642860689
Title	The Helios Disaster
Author	Linda Bostrom Knausgaard
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	World Editions
Year published	2020-04-07
Number of pages	128
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Awards (Translation) 2020
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