Sunday's Children
Will be published approx. on 2. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-5299-8608-2 (ISBN)
Description
One of Cinema's great masters revisits his childhood - and the end of his parent's marriage - in a novella of awakening
Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman realises that his parents are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family's ramshackle summer home threatens to end the bright, brilliant haze of Pu's childhood world.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman realises that his parents are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family's ramshackle summer home threatens to end the bright, brilliant haze of Pu's childhood world.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-8608-2 (9781529986082)
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Ingmar Bergman
Sunday's Children
A moving novella about childhood and adolescence from one of the cinematic masters of the twentieth century
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Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1918. He wrote or directed more than 170 theatrical productions and sixty films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century. Bergman's trilogy of- books - The Best Intentions, Sunday's Children, and Private Confessions - is based on the life of his parents, and details his own upbringing in early twentieth-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.