Beartown / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Series: Backman, Fredrik, Beartown ; 01.Publisher: London, England : Penguin Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Description: 488 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405930208; 1405930209Other title: Bear townUniform titles: Bjornstad. English Subject(s): Murder -- Fiction | Hockey teams -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Fiction | Hockey players -- Fiction | Sports -- Fiction | Hockey -- Tournaments | Scandals | Teenage athletes | Teenage athletes -- Fiction | Hockey -- Tournaments -- Fiction | Scandals -- Fiction | Swedish fiction -- Translations into English | Hockey stories | Sweden -- FictionGenre/Form: Hockey stories. | Sports fiction | Sports fiction. | Fiction. DDC classification: 839.738 Summary: In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But 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. Who will speak up? Could you stand by and stay silent? Or would you risk everything for justice? Which side would you be on?
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F BAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42000225711B |
Originally published in Swedish: Sweden, 2016.
"First published in the UK by Michael Joseph as The Scandal, 2017"--Title page verso.
In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But 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. Who will speak up? Could you stand by and stay silent? Or would you risk everything for justice? Which side would you be on?
Translated from the Swedish.
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