The Sweet Indifference Of The World Peter Stamm Michael Hoffman Translation by Peter Stamm, Michael Hoffman (translation) 9781590519806, 1590519809, 2019005601, 2019011396 instant download after payment.

“Please come to Skogskyrkogården tomorrow at 2. I have a story I want to tell you.” 

Lena agrees to Christoph's out-of-the-blue request, though the two have never met. In Stockholm's Woodland Cemetery, he tells her his story, which is also somehow hers. Twenty years before, he loved a woman named Magdalena - an actress like Lena, with her looks, her personality, her past. 

Their breakup inspired him to write his first novel, about the time they were together, & in its scenes, Lena recognizes the uncanny, intimate details of her own relationship with an aspiring writer, Chris. Is it possible that she & Chris are living the same lives as Magdalena & Christoph two decades apart? Are they headed towards the same scripted separation? Or, in the fever of writing, has Christoph lost track of what is real & what is imagined? 

In this subtle, kaleidoscopic tale, Peter Stamm exposes a fundamental human yearning: to beat life's mysteries by forcing answers on questions that have yet to be fully asked.

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Peter Stamm is the author of the novels The Sweet Indifference of the World, To the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, and Agnes, & the short-story collections We’re Flying & In Strange Gardens & Other Stories. For his entire body of work & his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, & in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize.