The home of the drowned

Every summer, Inga, her mother Ravdna and her Aunt Anne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Inga is thirteen, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared under water, the land flooded by a dam built to supply the hydropower to a society that has continually stolen from them. Defying the authorities, Ravdna decides to build a house on the lake to replace what was lost, becoming an unlikely activist. Meanwhile, Anne's health is in decline, and a concerned Inga merely longs to live like everyone else - an impossible wish when the Swedish state is relentlessly drowning her world.

Genres

Historical

Language

English, Swedish

Publisher

Harvill

ISBN

9781787305243