num_pages: 264
description: Stig Dagerman’s influential novel about a young man’s troubling journey through despair and illicit passion.Set in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, A Burnt Child revolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. Written in a taut and beautifully naturalistic tone, it remains Stig Dagerman’s most widely read novel and is one of the crowning works of his short but celebrated career.
language: English
title: A Burnt Child
titlecomplete: A Burnt Child (Quartet Encounters)
genres: 20th Century, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Drama, Sweden, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1957
publisher: Quartet Books