Description
The main ingredients in the recipes for Swedish hash differ widely. The meats, offal, and grain that go into its preparationan elaborate process of boiling, pickling, steaming, and stewingcan range from the heinous to the dangerous, and the results can be alternately emetic and sublime. The search for the most delicious dish of hashthe ultimate hashforms the backbone of this blackly comic, marvelously innovative new novel from one of Swedens most esteemed and bestselling authors.
In a small town where an epidemic of tuberculosis rages, two very different men arrive to a scene of stoically accepted suffering. Robert Maser is a traveling garment salesman whose accent and demeanor betray the fact that he is actually Martin Borman, the fugitive Nazi leader. He engages the local schoolteacher, Lars, on the bizarre quest to find the worlds best hash. As they wander the Swedish countryside, inviting themselves into peasant homes to sample the variety of humble family recipes, it becomes clear that their goal is much more than a culinary marvel, and that what theyve really been seeking is the force of life that must present itself even in the darkest of times.
Their adventures are narrated in a faux-naïf style by a 107-year-old newspaper reporter, who was witness to the events as they occurred in 1947, and has waited to confront his own relationship to life and death, happiness and suffering, and the power of art to express lifes ambiguities.
ASIN: 1585674087
VSKU: BVV.1585674087.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Lindgren, Torgny|Press, The Overlook
Binding: Hardcover
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Condition Notes: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
ASIN: 1585674087
VSKU: BVV.1585674087.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Lindgren, Torgny|Press, The Overlook
Binding: Hardcover
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.