Aftonland

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Karolina r professor vid Stockholms universitet, navigerar sig fram i den akademiska v rlden och lever ensam efter uppbrottet fr n en l ng relation N r hon ska b rja handleda en ny doktorand sl s hon av hans sj lvf rtroende Han s ger sig ha funnit ny information som f r ndrar historieskrivningen av svensk bildkonst tack vare uppt ckten av en kvinnlig konstn r verksam runt f rra sekelskiftet Karolina finner sig snart indragen i ett spel med flera ov ntade bottnar, b de k nslom ssigt och professionellt.Aftonland r en id roman om k rlek, konst och ensamhet Karolina r r sig i intellektuella kretsar men hela tiden finns d r det rent m nskligt n rvarande det sexuella, det pulserande, livskonkurrensen, ledan och sveken, konsekvensernas r dsla och lockelse. Free Read Aftonland By Therese Bohman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr What happens when you re a woman who chooses to focus on her career during her thirties, instead of doing what biology dictates finding a mate and having babies If you re Karolina, professor of Art in a Stockholm university, you drink too much You feel deep loneliness You find yourself isolated from other women, who have lives you don t understand You feel a desperation when a man gives you attention and you experience the walk of shametimes than you d like to admit You play second f What happens when you re a woman who chooses to focus on her career during her thirties, instead of doing what biology dictates finding a mate and having babies If you re Karolina, professor of Art in a Stockholm university, you drink too much You feel deep loneliness You find y...On the surface, this book seemed to be yet another middle aged professor has relationship with student narrative, with the flipped gender script But I m glad I read to the end, because I felt like it was muchthan that Karolina is an art professor, recently divorced, and living in a tiny apartment She starts to question what she is doing with her life, and along the way there are some encounters that felt very real, even the conversation with the colleague down the hall who can barely gi On the surface, this book seemed to be yet another middle aged professor has relationship with student narrative, with the flipped gender script But I m glad I read to the end, because I felt like it was muchthan that Karolina is an art professor, recently divorced, and living in a tiny apartment She starts to question what she is doing with her life, and along the way there are some encounters that felt very real, even the conversation with the colleague down the hall who can barely give her the time of day because his ego takes up so much of the room She en...Karolina Andersson finds herself suddenly single in her early forties She still loves her job as an art professor at a university in Stockholm But she is lonely, aimless and without purpose She tends to drink too much She indulges in social media voyeurism of her acquaintances lives, without posting or engaging What s there to post about She doesn t like travelling, she doesn t go out much, esp...Det kan ju vara s , sa hon Att de b sta relationerna r de som aldrig blir romantiska, eller sexuella, men som liksom har potentialen att bli det D r det finns ett slags undertryckt attraktion som man aldrig ben mner eller sl pper fram, som f rh jer hela relationen.Is a real life about happiness or merely the absence of unhappiness Therese Bohman creates a self seeking protagonist in Karolina, a professor of art history at the University of Stockholm, whose passion for art is matched with the ennui of her personal life.At the twilight of her youth, perched to enter middle age, Karolina idles away her time roaming the city and reminiscing about former relationships gone sour She has separated from a boring relationship that ate up eleven years of her time Is a real life about happiness or merely the absence of unhappiness Therese Bohman creates a self seeking protagonist in Karolina, a professor of art history at the University of Stockholm, whose passion for art is matched with the ennui of her personal life.At the twilight of her youth, perched to enter middle age, Karolina idles away her time roaming the city and reminiscing about former relationships gone sour She has separated from a boring relationship that ate up eleven years of her time and no...I didn t think I d so enjoy a book that details the angst of being 40ish and uneasy about one s life But Bohman s slender novel and her cerebral, melancholy heroine Karolina, are touching, familiar, and wryly funny This is a familiar story, but still feels fresh and vibrant Karolina is 40 ish and newly separated, a decision that she agonizes ...This is one of those books that is deceptively slender and seems as if it can be read in one afternoon Not so The richness of the prose, the accumulation of material, and the three dimensional characterizations slow a reader s pace, so as not to miss anything Karolina Andersson is a Professor of Art, a title she adores if not the execution At times, Karolina s negativity seems overwhelming, but there are many reasons for this, not the least of which her questioning of whether she made the co This is one of those books that is deceptively slender and seems as if it can be read in one afternoon Not so The richness of the prose, the accumulation of material, and t...Nu har jag hunnit sm lta boken Och lyssnat p f rfattaren Dekadensroman kallar hon den.Another one for my international reading catalog Sweden this time A story of an art professor in her 40s who becomes unmoored following a dissolution of an eleven year long relationship She starts reevaluating her life, priorities, choices, etc particularly as far as romantic attachments go She goes from one unsuitable love affair to another, she drinks too much, she wallows That s about it There is an actual plot there involving a very attractive graduate student with a very attractive r Another one for my international reading catalog Sweden this time A story of an art professor in her 40s who become...Jag kan inte riktigt s tta fingret p varf r jag gillade den h r boken s mycket, speciellt eftersom jag r s oinsatt i konstv rlden och boken handlar om en professor i konstvetenskap Jag k nde mig intelligent p n got s tt, n r jag l ste den Det r en riktigt bra skildring av ensamhet och uppgivenhet inf r livets meningsl shet, och jag s g mig sj lv i Karolina p ett s tt jag g r v ldigt s llan Det f rv nar mig inte att folk tycker att den r tr kig, men jag fastnade fr n f rsta sidan Den Jag kan inte riktigt s tta fingret p varf r jag gillade den h r boken s mycket, speciellt eftersom jag r s oinsatt i konstv rlden och boken handlar om en professor i konstvetenskap Jag k nde mig intelligent p n got s tt, n r jag l ste den Det r en riktigt bra skildring av ensamhet och uppgivenhet inf r li...

Aftonland
  • Swedish
  • 04 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 230 pages
  • Therese Bohman
  • Aftonland