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Beartown / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: UK : Penguin Books, 2018.Description: 483 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781405930208 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Bjornstad. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 839.738 23
LOC classification:
  • PT9877.12.A32
Summary: Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other. Which side would you be on?
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F BAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Older Reader R17925L0499

Translated from the Swedish.

This translation originally published: as The scandal. London: Michael Joseph, 2017.

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town's future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other. Which side would you be on?

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