In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

£1.99

In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Author: Tom Malmquist

Dinosaur mascot

Language: English

Published by: Sceptre

Published on: 1st June 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 312 Kb

ISBN: 9781473640030


Chosen by the New York Times as one of the "Notable Books of 2018"

Chosen by El País as one of this past decade's nine best novels about life and death

The prize-winning, bestselling tale of love, loss, family and the lives we live moment by moment, from a stunning new voice in European fiction.

Tom's heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to hospital with severe flu. While the doctors are able to save the baby, they are helpless in the face of what transpires to be acute Leukemia, and in a moment as fleeting as it is cruel Tom gains a daughter but loses his soul-mate. In Every Moment is the story of a year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury of bereavement with the overwhelming responsibility of raising his daughter, Livia, alone.

By turns tragic and redemptive, meditative and breathless, achingly poignant and darkly funny, this heavily autobiographical novel has been described in its native Sweden as hypnotic, impossible to resist and one of the most powerful books about grief ever written.

Show moreShow less