THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2023 Once I had seven fathers in seven years. This is the story of those years. Christmas, 1983. In the woods outside Norrköping, a house is shaken by a violent argument ? and in the aftermath, seven-year-old Andrev?s mother lets him in on a secret. The secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. The real one has shoulder length hair and lives in a land far, far away. It?s the best thing Andrev has ever heard. He feels like he?s the boy in a book, a book about a boy whose father is the king of a magical land, with genies who can take him there. But there will be no spirits in Andrev?s story. Only new fathers, who are not his. This is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about mothers who mutter about ?bloody men? while they smoke under the hood of the cooker; about how love begins and ends; and above...
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