Sunday's Children
Published on 8. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-78487-389-9 (ISBN)
Description
The second novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents
Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the terrible realisation that his father and mother are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, its rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family's ramshackle summer home threatens to bring to a close the bright, brilliant haze of Pu's childhood world.
Based upon film-maker Ingmar Bergman's own family life, Sunday's Children is the second part in Bergman's loose trilogy of books that started with The Best Intentions, and closes with Private Confessions.
Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the terrible realisation that his father and mother are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of the Swedish countryside, with its ponds, its rivers and woods, the daily chaos of the family's ramshackle summer home threatens to bring to a close the bright, brilliant haze of Pu's childhood world.
Based upon film-maker Ingmar Bergman's own family life, Sunday's Children is the second part in Bergman's loose trilogy of books that started with The Best Intentions, and closes with Private Confessions.
Reviews / Votes
Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be -- John McGahern * New York Times Book Review * This haunting, autobiographical work is highly recommended for serious fiction and film collections * Library Journal * In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience * Houston Chronicle *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
112 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-389-9 (9781784873899)
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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 60 films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely-regarded as one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th 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 20th-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.