Thin ice
By: Mikael Engstrom ; translated by Susan Beard
Contributors: Beard, Susan
Publisher: Little Island
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781908195005
Subjects: Coming of age; Foster children; Runaway children; Children of alcoholics; Family life; Fiction
Work titles: Isdraken
Description: Where would you rather live, in a lonely flat with your drunken father, only bearable when your big brother is home? Or in a small, snowy village with a frozen lake, where your aunt burns books to keep warm and a girl called Pi makes your heart beat a bit too fast.
Notes: "First published as Isdraken by Raben & Sjogren, Sweden, in 2007"--Title page verso.

Adolescent.

Translated from the Swedish.