Aguardiente

Aguardiente

Aguardiente - Torgny  Lindgren - Sexto Piso
Publisher name: 
Sexto Piso
Year of publication: 
2018
Pages: 
184
Book size:
15x23cm
Weight: 99.2 g
Binding: 
Rustic

Pastor Olof Helmersson, octogenarian, returns to Avabäck, a town in northern Sweden where he lived long ago. It brings with it a folding bicycle and an objective: to "undo" its Christian mission, to become an atheist missionary. During the decades he has spent outside the region, living on the coast, he has come to the conviction that God does not exist and life has no meaning. He believes that it is time to disappoint all those whom in his youth he converted with his fervor, his thunderous words and his accordion. But a task like this is not without obstacles. For starters, most of his former parishioners are dead. Furthermore, it does not seem necessary to expel God from the region: the religious community has dissolved. The pulpit of the church has become a hive, and the church itself is now a place where people gather to spend the afternoon playing cards. Only Gerda, now on the ve...read more

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Book: Aguardiente

ISBN: 9788416677825
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