A Blessed Child
A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann is a First Edition published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2008, featuring 307 pages in English. This novel presents a story centered on sisterhood and the lasting impact of childhood memories, set against the backdrop of the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. The narrative follows Isak Lövenstad as he gathers his three daughters from different marriages each summer, allowing them to experience a fleeting sense of family while navigating the complexities of growing up.
Readers will find a poignant exploration of familial bonds and the trials of adolescence as Erika, Laura, and Molly confront their shared past. The intensity of Erika’s relationship with the rebellious Ragnar becomes a focal point, leading to a pivotal moment that alters the family’s dynamics forever. Twenty-five years later, the sisters return to their childhood home to face the repercussions of that fateful summer, delving into themes of loss and reconciliation. A Blessed Child offers a starkly beautiful reflection on innocence lost and the enduring ties of family life.
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From the internationally acclaimed author ofStella DescendingandGrace, a captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory.
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika’s bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar’s outcast state, she suddenly turns away—a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak’s family. Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their father—now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there—the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.
Bold and starkly beautiful,A Blessed Childis a haunting parable of innocence lost.
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