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"He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she's grown up and he's in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he's losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write it together. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. When she finally comes to the island, bringing her tape recorder with her, old…
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7 editions · 2 languages- Hardcover · English · 2019UnquietW. W. Norton & Company · 288 pages · 9780393609943
- Other · English · 2021UnquietPenguin Books, Limited · 9780241464625
- Other · English · 2020UnquietPenguin Books, Limited · 9780241464632
- Other · English · 2020UnquietNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 416 pages · 9780393357653
- Other · English · 2019UnquietThorndike Press Large Print · 529 pages · 9781432863685
- Other · English · 2019UnquietNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 288 pages · 9780393609950
Fathers and daughters, fictionFiction, biographicalAuthors, fictionGermanic literatureAutobiographyFictionMemoryFamilies






