Linda Boström Knausgård

October Child

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From 2013 to 2017, Linda Boström Knausgård was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at this “factory” progressed, the writer’s memories began to disappear. What good is a writer without her memory? This book, based on the author’s experiences, is an eloquent and profound attempt to hold on to the past, to create a story, to make sense, and to keep alive ties to family, friends, and even oneself. Moments from childhood, youth, marriage, parenting, and divorce flicker across the pages of October Child. This is the story of one woman’s struggle against mental illness and isolation. It is a raw testimony of how writing can preserve and heal.
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155 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Translator
Saskia Vogel
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  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    I admire the author for her honesty and her great talent in finding the right words for the seemingly inexpressible.”
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Chosen for the unsentimental language of her portrayal of human existence on the border between a world distorted by psychosis and reality’s structured existence. Her stories are written according to the logic of myths, never asking why, but allowing an understanding of ourselves that is difficult to be determined in the dominant categories
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Boström Knausgård is good at evoking the fragility that can afflict even the most loving families
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