Snails and Snow
She is the first female to be appointed Editor-in-Chief of the culture pages at a Swedish daily newspaper. It is the middle of the political 1970s and at Aftonbladet’s editorial office in the old Klara quarters, the smoke lingers dense, and the pub crawls run into the early hours of the morning. But she must get home to the townhouse in suburban Farsta. Her marriage is strained, and having to take care of both work, husband and child is a difficult equation. She ventures out to explore her own self, as well as men and sexuality. At last she finds the love of her life, and passion. Something that will reveal itself as far more complex than anticipated.
Snails and Snow is the third part of Agneta Pleijel’s auto-fictive memoirs – a journey through deceptive memories and the longing to write. In A Fortune Foretold, Pleijel sought out the girl that was once her, in her childhood Stockholm and Lund. In The Scent of a Man, she closely followed the young woman during her student years in Gothenburg. Snails and Snow begin with her first years as a professional, leading up to the authorship we see today. Agneta Pleijel follows the trail of the snail through life as a daughter, mother, working woman and lover.
Agneta Pleijel is one of Sweden’s most cherished authors. Since her debut in 1970, she has been active both as a novelist, poet and playwright. Pleijel’s books have been translated into a number of languages and she has been awarded several prestigious literary prizes. Her latest books are the bestselling and critically acclaimed A Fortune Foretold and The…
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She is the first female to be appointed Editor-in-Chief of the culture pages at a Swedish daily newspaper. It is the middle of the political 1970s and at Aftonbladet’s editorial office in the old Klara quarters, the smoke lingers dense, and the pub crawls run into the early hours of the morning. But she must get home to the townhouse in suburban Farsta. Her marriage is strained, and having to take care of both work, husband and child is a difficult equation. She ventures out to explore her own self, as well as men and sexuality. At last she finds the love of her life, and passion. Something that will reveal itself as far more complex than anticipated.
Snails and Snow is the third part of Agneta Pleijel’s auto-fictive memoirs – a journey through deceptive memories and the longing to write. In A Fortune Foretold, Pleijel sought out the girl that was once her, in her childhood Stockholm and Lund. In The Scent of a Man, she closely followed the young woman during her student years in Gothenburg. Snails and Snow begin with her first years as a professional, leading up to the authorship we see today. Agneta Pleijel follows the trail of the snail through life as a daughter, mother, working woman and lover.
