A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding:
longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Translated by Nichola Smalley
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding:
longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Translated by Nichola Smalley
Overview
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.
In October 1989, triplet babies are born into chaos in a Swedish hospital. Over two decades later, the siblings are scattered around the world, barely speaking. Sebastian is in London working for a mysterious scientific organisation and falling in love. Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult. And the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, practising being a stepmother. Then something happens that forces them to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying news: their father has gone missing and she has something to tell them, a twenty-five-year secret that will change all their lives …
'Hilarious' CLAIRE LOMBARDO
'Playfully experimental' THE GUARDIAN
'Magnificent' THE TELEGRAPH
Details
- Format
- Size
- Extent
- ISBN
- RRP
- Pub date
- Rights held
- Paperback
- 198mm x 129mm
- 544 pages
- 9781914484872
- GBP£10.99
- 9 March 2023
- WORLD ENGLISH
Categories
Awards
- Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
- Winner of the 2019 Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize
- Winner of the 2019 Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2020 Tidningen Vi’s Literature Prize
Praise
‘A wild 529-page trip … magnificent.’
‘Playfully experimental … enjoyable … funny.’
About the Author
Amanda Svensson grew up in Malmö. She studied creative writing and has translated books by Ali Smith, Tessa Hadley, and Kristen Roupenian. A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding was awarded the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize. It is shortlisted for Tidningen Vi’s Literature Prize.
Translator
Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. Her translation of Andrzej Tichý’s novel Wretchedness won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize that same year. She lives in London.
