Samlade verk

Samlade verk
(Collected Works)

First edition
Author	Lydia Sandgren
Cover artist	Heike Schüssler
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish
Set in	Gothenburg, Sweden
Published	2020
Publisher	Albert Bonniers Förlag
Pages	690
Awards	August Prize (2020)

Samlade verk (lit. Collected Works) is a 2020 debut novel by Swedish writer Lydia Sandgren (b. 1987). It won the August Prize for Fiction on the same year it was published.

Synopsis

Set in Gothenburg, Gustav Verker, a distinguished artist, is being prepared for a major retrospective in his career from the 1980s onwards. At the same time, a psychology student Rachel changes and meets her mysteriously missing mother's face on an exhibition poster that is wallpapered across town. In the same vein, Rachel's father, the publisher Martin Berg, is thrown into a dizzying life crisis.