Astrid & Veronika
By: Linda Olsson.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780143038078
Subjects: Female friendship -- Fiction; Sweden -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Astrid and Veronika
Work titles: Let me sing you gentle songs
Description: A lyrical study of friendship, love, and loss chronicles the evolving relationship between Veronika, a young New Zealand writer struggling with a recent tragedy and trying to finish her novel, and Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who offers comfort in the form of companionship and home-cooked meals, in a debut novel set against the backdrop of small-town Sweden. Original.
Notes: "First published in New Zealand under the title Let me sing you gentle songs by Penguin Books (NZ) 2005"--T.p. verso.

"A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes readers guide.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-259).