- Family secrets, Death, Brothers and sisters, Fathers
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Siri Hustvedt
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- CORPUS, Editorial Empúries, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- cat, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9782742775255
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