· The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles, is a study of loss that brings the myth of Athena to Sweden. Twelve-year-old Anna’s father is committed to a psychiatric hospital, and when the assimilation efforts with the foster family do not work out, she is institutionalized as www.doorway.ru: World Editions. THE HELIOS DISASTER. by Linda Boström Knausgård translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON BARNES NOBLE LOCAL BOOKSELLER GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe. Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. The myth of Athena inspires a deeply melancholy portrait of a fractured family in the debut novel. Aftonbladet. ‘The Helios Disaster is a story about longing for a father and about prepubescence. About the will to die, refusal, and a sun shining far too brightly. But in this field of tension there is also a simple happiness. Boström Knausgård’s authorship keeps getting better and better.’. Dagens Nyheter.4/5(32).
Linda Boström Knausgård. Linda Boström Knausgård (born 15 October in Boo, Sweden) is a Swedish author and poet. She debuted in with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret. Her critical breakthrough came in with the short-story collection Grand Mal. Her first novel, Helioskatastrofen, was released in Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Published by: World Editions. Pages, x in. Paperback The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård - Goodreads The Helios Disaster is a contemporary mythical tale in which a father gives birth to a twelve-year-old girl, splitting his head open in the process. The Helios Disaster Linda Boström Knausgård, trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. World Editions, $ trade paper (p) ISBN
The myth of Athena inspires a deeply melancholy portrait of a fractured family in the debut novel by Boström Knausgård (Welcome to America, ). “I am born of a father. I split his head,” says Anna, the novel’s young narrator, as if she’d sprung from the head of Zeus. The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles, is a study of loss that brings the myth of Athena to Sweden. Twelve-year-old Anna’s father is committed to a psychiatric hospital, and when the assimilation efforts with the foster family do not work out, she is institutionalized as well. The astounding opening lines of Linda Boström Knausgård’s The Helios Disaster (“I am born of a father. I split his head.”) plunges you into a riveting enigma of a tale. Who are these people? The twelve-year-old girl is born wearing a suit of shining armor. She must be Athena, you think, born from the head of Zeus.
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