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Bestselling Swedish author Andrev Walden to appear at Max Minerva’s
When venerated Swedish journalist and columnist Andrev Walden released his debut novel in 2023, it took the country by storm, selling over 170,000 copies in its first year of release and topping the national bestseller lists.
Bloody Awful in Different Ways was the recipient of the August Prize that same year, and as well as being translated into 10 languages, is now also set for a screen adaptation.
In the first literary event of the Autumn, Walden will be welcomed by Max Minerva’s on October 9 for a special evening to discuss the book in front of an audience.
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The narrative centres on a boy who has seven different fathers in seven years. A story of “growing up in the chaos of social change”, and “how love begins and ends”; it is also, “above all, about men”.
Andrev Walden – photo: Joel Nilsson
Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet.
Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or canoe enthusiasts, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can’t control how they behave.
Photo: Penguin Books
Books will be available to purchase on the night, with 50p from each ticket sale going to the homelessness charity Caring in Bristol.
Andrev Walden introduces Bloody Awful in Different Ways at Max Minerva’s on October 9 at 7pm (doors 6.30pm). Tickets are available at www.maxminervas.co.uk.
Main photo: Penguin Books (extract from cover art)
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