Fishing in Utopia
Subtitle: Sweden and the future that disappeared
By: Andrew Brown
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781862079953; 9781847080813
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Other titles: Sweden and the future that disappeared
Description: "In the 1970s Andrew Brown, a misfit young Englishman, moved to Sweden, enticed by the possibility of a cleaner, kinder, more rational future. He married a Swedish woman, learned to fish, and brought up his young son in their makeshift cottage in the woods. But during the 1980s, his marriage and his country fell apart as the temptations of the outside world forced their way in. The prime minister, Olof Palme, was assassinated. Twenty years after Palme's murder, Andrew Brown travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had loved, and then hated, and now found he loved again."--Book cover.
Table of contents: title: 1 The pike summer; title: 2 Anna; title: 3 Nodinge; title: 4 Socialists; title: 5 Wood; title: 6 Misfits; title: 7 Under the surface; title: 8 Childhood; title: 9 Felix; title: 10 In the woods; title: 11 The correspondent; title: 12 The fishing club; title: 13 England; title: 14 Murder; title: 15 Downturn; title: 16 The trout summer; title: 17 The world intrudes; title: 18 Getting away; title: 19 Seeing the vatt; title: 20 Back to Anna; title: 21 The revenant; title: 22 Another country; title: 23 Far north; title: 24 Gold; title: 25 Midsummer feasting; title: 26 Gringo; title: 27 Still water.