Bits of information are provided about one character in one section at one moment in time, contradicted in another section, and denied completely in yet another. Points of view constantly change among the many characters as the chronology moves between 1967, 1989, 2004, and 2012 and back. The structure of the folk song, as author Monika Fagerholm describes it here, explains the overall structure of this novel, with many repetitions through time and space, through past and present, and through new generations and old. Such a different way of looking at time…a repetition in time and space…But with the folk song comes realism.” “The folk song has many verses, the same thing happens in every one. Note: The American Girl, the predecessor of this novel, was WINNER of the August Prize, Sweden’s premier literary award.
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