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The helios disaster / Linda Bostrom Knausgaard ; translation from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
The Helios Disaster is a contemporary mythical tale in which a father gives birth to a twelve-year-old girl, splitting his head open in the process. Father and daughter are separated. The girl is placed into foster care and comes under the spell of the Pentecostal movement. When she starts speaking in tongues, she's admitted to a psychiatric ward. All the time, she longs to meet her father and eventually they run away together. The author's passionate involvement with her protagonist illuminates what it is like to slide irresistibly away from reality
Record details
- ISBN: 9781642860689 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 189 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : World Editions, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Published in the UK in 2015 by World Editions Ltd., London. |
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| Subject: | Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Mental illness > Fiction. Foster care > Fictin. Glossolalia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mythical Fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emmaus Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Emmaus Public Library | FIC BOSTROM KNAUSGAARD, LINDA (Text) | 36446002013491 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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