Fishing In Utopia : Sweden And The Future That Disappeared
by
Andrew Brown
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1847080812
ISBN-13
9781847080813
Publisher
Granta Books
Imprint
Granta Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 4th, 2009
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
198 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Autobiography: generalAutobiography: general
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'Fishing in Utopia [winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize] is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story of modern rootlessness and the search for something to believe in' Sunday Times
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Sweden was an affluent, egalitarian country envied around the world. Refugees were welcomed, even misfit young Englishmen could find a place there. Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a timber mill while helping to raise their small son. Fishing became his passion and his escape. In the mid-1980s his marriage and the country fell apart. The Prime Minister was assassinated. The welfare system crumbled along with the industries that had supported it. Twenty years later, Andrew Brown travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had loved, and then hated, and now found he loved again.
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