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An unprecedented story about a dysfunctional family
The great literary bestseller from Sweden. An unprecedented and intense story about a dysfunctional family and the consequences of a major trauma from the past.
Three brothers return to the lake vacation home where an accident occurred twenty years earlier that changed their lives forever. They brought their deceased mother's ashes to scatter. They only discover that it was their mother's wish not to be scattered next to their father's grave, through a letter that the brothers find in her apartment the evening before the cremation.
Benjamin drives the car, Pierre sits next to him and Nils sits in the back seat. It is a journey into their past, to a time when as boys they were completely left to their own devices by their parents. Now they are young men, grown apart but still connected by a shared history of competing for their father's attention and their mother's unpredictable love. Her death accelerates everything and the tension between the brothers increases. What exactly was the tragedy that occurred at that time?