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Bread and milk
Ramqvist, Karolina, 1976-2025
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In Bread and Milk, Swedish writer Karolina Ramqvist traces a girlhood through food - that which has the potential to fill her up, but also threatens to consume her. She remember the tangerines eaten in gluttonous longing before her mother's closed bedroom door; her grandmother's rice pudding connecting her to a time when eating your fill was a luxury not readily afforded. From the carefully restricted low-fat margarine on a slice of bread to the dried grease stains on an oversized dining room table, we follow several generations of women and their daughters as they struggle with financial and emotional vulnerability, independence and motherhood. When Karolina finds herself a single mother to a young daughter of her own, food becomes the way for her to show her love, but also to instil a complicated inheritance. Bread and Milk is at once wholly original and a natural extension of the brazenly intelligent and personal writing that has come to define Karolina Ramqvist's authorship.
Main title:
Bread and milk / Karolina Ramqvist ; translated by Saskia Vogel.
Author:
Ramqvist, Karolina, 1976-, authorVogel, Saskia, translator
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Imprint:
London : Manilla Press, 2025.©2024.
Collation:
201 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in Swedish as "Bröd och mjölk" by Norstedts, 2022.Translated from the Swedish.
ISBN:
9781786583314 (hardcover)
Dewey class:
839.7B/RAM
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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BRN:
2689904