num_pages: 144
description: Johan has sometimes been fortunate but never particularly he lost his job for a breach of professional integrity, and he and his son haven’t spoken in eight years. His greatest happiness–his grace–is his competent, confident wife Mai, who loves him unreservedly. Now, with six months to live, and with Mai’s help, he intends to die well. But as he broods on the pleasures and regrets of his life, and death slowly envelops him, Johan’s resolution begins to waver. Morally intricate and full of sly humor, Grace is a touching and unexpectedly dramatic exploration of the territory between life and death.
language: English
title: Grace
titlecomplete: Grace
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, 21st Century, Death, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Contemporary
ratings_count: 599
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: Anchor