A Burnt Child (Quartet Encounters)

Stig Dagerman

Quartet Books

In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg’s small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country’s brightest literary star. To this day it is a singular work of fictionâa haunting tale that oscillates around seven castaways as they await their inevitable death on a desert island populated by blind gulls and hordes of iguanas. At the center of the island is a poisonous lagoon, where a strange fish swims in circles and devours anything in its path. As we are taken into the lives of each castaway, it becomes clear that Dagerman’s true subject is the nature of horror itself.Island of the Doomed is a chilling profile of terror and guilt and a stunning explorationâwritten under the shadow of the Nuremberg Trialsâof the anxieties of a generation in the postwar nuclear age.

Island of the Doomed

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Quartet Bks.

Notre besoin de consolation est impossible à rassasier

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Actes-sud

Autunno tedesco. Viaggio tra le rovine del Reich millenario

Lindau

Het Verbrande Kind

Meulenhoff

Bränt barn

Norstedts

Schwedische Klassiker

August Strindberg

ASTRID LINDGREN

Selma, Lagerlöf

Novellix

Jogos da Noite

Antigona

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