A Blessed Child
Contributors: Sarah Death (Translator)
Publisher: Knopf
Published: August 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780307265470
Subjects: European - Scandinavian; Fiction / Literary; Literary; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Description: "Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up." However, one summer, Erika's bond with a local boy precipitates an incident that forever changes their lives and alters their family. "Twenty-five years later the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried"--Page 2 of cover.