{"product_id":"9781938604362","title":"European Trash (Fourteen Ways to Remember a Father)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences.\"—Michel Ekman, \u003ci\u003eSvenska Dagbladet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ulf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash.\"—Amelie Björck, \u003ci\u003eGöteborgs-Posten\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Trash\u003c\/i\u003e is a humorous, moving, and elegiac novel that \"circles\" around the image of the author's father who, through his assemblage of objects, art, and wisdom—collected in his flat in Malmö, Sweden—strives to keep the culture and values that others might call \"European Trash\" intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI open the door and walk into my father's empty apartment. Already in the hall I get the feeling that he is still in the kitchen making coffee, quickly turning around to look in my direction. In that unfamiliar silence, visions and memories are released: how he walked toward me with that gleam in his eye, how he pronounced my name, how he inspected me to check my level of fatigue.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUlf Peter Hallberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a Swedish writer born in Malmö, Sweden, who has lived in Berlin, Germany, since 1983. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Glance of the Flâneur\u003c\/i\u003e (translated into German and Italian), \u003ci\u003eGrand Tour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLegends \u0026amp; Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEuropean Trash\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErland Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e has published several books in translation, including \u003ci\u003eBetween Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDarkness: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e by Rolf Aggestam (with Lars Nordstrom, 1989), and \u003ci\u003eViews from a Tuft of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e by Harry Martinson (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIngrid Cassady\u003c\/b\u003e is from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently lives in California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033799540976,"sku":"9781938604362","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938604362_p0.jpg?v=1763785270","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938604362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}