Johannes Lichtman
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English
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Prompted by his drug addiction and latest dismissal to relocate to 2015 Sweden, creative-writing instructor Jonas Anderson volunteers to teach Swedish to Middle Eastern refugees, including one who challenges his views about making a difference.
Fired from yet another teaching position, Jonas Anderson is sure a move to Sweden, the country of his mother's birth, will be just the thing to kick-start a new and improved-- and newly sober-- life. He arrives...
Author
Language
English
Description
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Such Good Work Johannes Lichtman returns with a novel that is strikingly relevant to our times-about an American who takes a job in Ukraine in 2018, only to find that his struggle to understand the customs and culture is eclipsed by a romantic entanglement with deadly consequences.
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday, John Turner receives a call from an old college friend who makes him an...