Hösten 1969 i Trakten. Livet rämnar. Den amerikanska flickan Eddie hittas drunknad och hennes vän Björn har hängt sig.Från denna händelse strålar berättelserna i romanen ut, bakåt och framåt i tiden - till och från olika platser, med Trakten som knutpunkt. Historien om Den amerikanska flickan går...
LIKED TO PLAY POKER. HE WAS NOT ALWAYS lucky, but he took the defeat like a man is supposed to. That is to say, he paid out without making a face. In the beginning there was the District. The Second Cape and the First Cape and the great woods and something else too. In the beginning was the war, ...
Elizabeth “Liz” Maalamaa—she took back her maiden name when she became a widow—has passed away at a respectable age; after a brief illness, quietly “fallen asleep,” literally, died in her sleep. A peaceful passing, the best you can think of, in her Portuguese winter home. And avoided being alone ...