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This is the story of her children, her parents and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with the wrong person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Antarctica of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is the unflinching testimony of a woman on the margins, giving voice to the voiceless and offering an insight into depths of absolute vulnerability, brutality and isolation. 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A police officer's mistress clandestinely cares for his dying wife. A boy goes missing from the Swedish town of Huskvarna after he was last seen walking with a wolf. From the inside of a dead whale's belly, to an industrial town emptied out after its factory's closure, to a Texan prison where a young man visits his sister's murderer on death row, Stridsberg approaches both the strange and the mundane with a fairy-tale sensibility that lights our world anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime runs through this collection like water, variously ebbing, flowing and rippling beneath the shimmering surface of Stridsberg's prose. These genre-spanning stories are held together by a sense of longing: for escape from the narrow margins of a prescribed life, for a past which promises an undiscovered future, for a place or a person that feels like home. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43595592237234,"sku":"9781529423266","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529423266.jpg?v=1786023686"},{"product_id":"9780857054746","title":"The Faculty of Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels\"  Katy Waldman, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. 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